Kālī = The Lady of Guadalupe

Today we are celebrating the feast day for a very important Marian apparition that occurred on the site of a former Tonantzin temple: The Lady of Guadalupe! This is among my favorite occurrences in Catholic history and it gives us a nice opportunity to talk about Mā beyond any one cultural context (i.e the Universal "Mā" as opposed to the particular). As such, in this class we discuss the distinctions between the sthāna-devatā (deities of the region), grāma-devatā (village deiti...