Geography/Culture: Hindustani. Her most famous temple, the Kalighat, is in Calcutta.
Description: Space garmented Goddess on Whom the whole universe rests, arises out of and melts away into; She Who has stripped away all veils of illusion; Universal Mother Who frees from fear; Granter of the supreme realization of truth; Creatress and Destructrix; Prophylactic Goddess of all devouring time, the dance of death, and communicable disease; Eternal night; Eponym of Calcutta. In Her non-Brahmanical form She is tutelary deity of Bengal.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Kali.
To Whom Sacred: seed-corn; crane; cobra; water-buffalo; sheep; pig; fowl; goat; originally human sacrifice; severed-human head (there is no escape from time); skull; noose; trident; the 50 letters Sanskrit writing-system (each of which is one of the skulls in Her necklace); the number 5; the colour black (space, the colour in which all distinctions are dissolved); crematoria; burial grounds.
Iconography: in Her frightful aspect She is hideous, emaciated, with extended tongue and fang-like teeth; Her four-arms holding noose, skull-topped staff, and severed head. She is also represented in a more benevolent form.
Male Associates: consort, Siva.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title and Daughter of Ambika, Mother, from Whose forehead She came forth.
• Perhaps Her benign form is Bhadrakali, Auspicious-Kali, Who is linked with Uma.
• Also called Bhavani, Giver-of-existence.
• Title Bherunda, ----, below.
• Some suggest Her name and that of Cailleach, Old-Woman, (Who is linked with Baba), may be etymologically related.
• She is said to be identical with Candi, Wrathful, Who is linked with Durga, Inaccessible-One.
• She seems to strikingly resemble Aztec Coatlicue, She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt.
• Her attendants are Dakinis, Sky-Walkers, Who are linked with Dakini, Sky-Walker.
• Durga, Inaccessible-One, is said to be Her high-caste counterpart.
• Under the variant: Kali-Ma, Black-Mother-Time, (Who is linked with Durga, Inaccessible-One), She is the sixth of Durga's Ten Warrior Forms.
• Perhaps variant: Kulli, {Black-One}.
• A destructive form of Her is Mahakali, {Great-Blackness}, Who is linked with Urmya, ----.
• She is sometimes identified with Mahalaksmi, {Great-Sign}, Who is linked with Urmya, ----.
• The Mahavidyas, Those-of-Great-Knowledge, are Her transformations.
• She is also called Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains, Who is linked with Uma, Gracious-One.
• Also called Sati, She-Who-is-True, Who is linked with Sita, The-furrow.
• Perhaps also called Uma, Gracious-One.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A Yaksini, {She-of-Silvan-Mysteries}, Who is linked with Gramadevata, Village-Goddess.
• Bherunda is also a title of Kali, Black-One, above.