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Long Tongue

Hindu demoness
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  • Hindu goddess Kali
    Kali
    / History and development

    …is the ogress Dirgha-jihvi (“Long Tongue”), who licks up oblations in the ancient Vedic Sanskrit texts known as the Brahmanas. In the Mundaka Upanishad Kali is described as one of seven tongues of the yajna (“sacrificial fire”).

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    …is the ogress Dirgha-jihvi (“Long Tongue”), who licks up oblations in the ancient Vedic Sanskrit texts known as the Brahmanas. In the Mundaka Upanishad Kali is described as one of seven tongues of the yajna (“sacrificial fire”).

    Read More