At least the conditions required for the world to be run by psychosexual nutcases no longer exists. https://qz.com/1768545/hinduisms-kali-is-the-feminist-icon-the-world-despera... Kali is the quintessential embodiment of shakti, female power. She emerges as an independent goddess around 1000 BCE and evolves as a controversial character: she is a scary, bloodthirsty embodiment of destruction, and the ultimate protector against evil. She is spiritual and bodily, erotic and sexual and as such, courageous: in the Tantrik cults that revolve around her, eroticism is primarily a way of confronting one’s deepest fears.