Though she appears in various forms the most famous image of Goddess Kali shows her holding a severed head in her one hand and sword in the other, with her foot on Lord Shiva's chest and a garland of skulls hanging in her neck. The depiction of this form of Goddess Kali has a famous legend behind it according to which during a battle, Goddess Kali became over enthusiastic and started destroying everything in her sight and could have destroyed the entire universe. To stop this endless violence Lord Shiva (her husband) threw himself under the Goddess Kali's feet. The goddess got so much shocked on seeing Lord Shiva under her feet that she stuck out her tongue in bewilderment. In this way, her raging madness of destroying everything ended and everything was calmed. Since then Goddess Kali came to be depicted in the fierce form of standing with her one foot on Lord Shiva's chest and her tongue stuck out.
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