Kali Ma

"Living on the periphery of civilization, she threatens to invade and destroy it, threatens to overgrow it or trample it in her mwr dance of life and death. She is preeminently the goddess who is served with blood, who is pleased with blood, who subsists on blood. Her force and power reside in the hot, pumping blood of all creatures - she is reinvigorated when the blood of birth is returned to her in the blood of death. She sustains life and is herself sustained by the giving back of life."- The Sword and the Flute by David R. Kinsley