Mahakali

Mahakali (Sanskrit: महाकाली, romanized: Mahākālī) is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, she is the goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism. She is also known as the supreme being in various Hindu tantras and Puranas. She is an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali.

Mahakali is a fierce goddess associated with universal power, time, life, death, and both rebirth and liberation. She is the consort of Mahakala, the god of consciousness, the basis of reality and existence. Mahakali, in Sanskrit, is etymologically the feminised variant of Mahakala, or Great Time (which is also interpreted as Death), Shiva in Hinduism.