The Realness Bringer

Durga and a team of goddesses were battling a demon named Raktabija, who was threatening to destroy the world. They used an assortment of weapons, all of which only compounded the problem.  When their weapons cut Raktabija’s skin, each drop of blood would transform into a duplicate of the demon upon touching the ground, resulting in hundreds of new opponents. Eventually the battlefield was covered with an army of Raktabija clones.

This angered Durga and the other goddesses. Eventually, they realized they were outmatched. Durga summoned Kali (in some versions she simply transforms into Kali), who arrived and quickly killed every one of the clones in an instant. She then decapitated Raktabija and in order to prevent the creation of new clones, she caught and drank every drop of blood before it could touch the ground.

After defeating Raktabija, Kali was in a hateful, angry trance and continued to stomp around the world. Her rage proved more brutal and caused more damage than anything the demon had done. Nothing that Durga and the others tried could calm her, so they went to Shiva and told him that his wife was destroying the world. Shiva went to Kali and tried to calm her down, but his efforts were also useless. He could think of only one way to soothe her and that was to throw himself under her feet to be trampled to death.

This act did disrupt her trance and calm her down and she returned to a more even state and the world eventually returned to a new harmony.