literally "The Black (Goddess)". This goddess is the awful form of the Shiva's Shakti; She represents also the destructive power (Shakti) of Time (Kâla). Her images are terrifying, in order to strike mind : standing, black-colored, She exhibits a long bloody tongue. Her neck is ornamented with a garland of newly cut human heads. She brandishes fiercely threatening weapons and dances on a lifeless body