Thunders, Arrows and Coincidences

Fertility is the word I’ve been reading and hearing and writing about for more than a week so far.
Just in my past post I mentioned it at least two times, and it’s only a single writing piece.
There were newspaper articles, TV shows and programs, overheard conversation from random people in the street and research about the mythic image I’m studying about: Indra.

I’m even going to undergo a surgical procedure on my ovaries this next week adding to the writing, reading, researched and heard also discussed and checked out.

In my view of the world there are no coincidences, only signs, and my personal task these days has been to find out what it could mean.

Fertility of the mind, fertility of the imagination, fertility of the self, sense of creation, to create something new, the potential of bring something to life, the act of life…
Why the word Fertility with all its connotations has been so present in my life this whole time?

Then I turn to my classes' homeworks and I think to myself: "Duh!"
I have to 'create' answers for all my classes and I have to find a way where what I think and what I have to talk about not only meet but also make sense and actually work for the greater good.
If I can do that, wow I'm great!

The task itself looks a bit uphill especially when I have to research and work with a mythological character with whom I have not much of a connection, yet.

Indra is a Vedic-Hindu god that I never heard about before.
His name I did hear in its feminime version (adding an i after the d): Indira Ghandi, the late prime minister of India that I admired very much; but I never heard about Indra the god.
According to what I've found so far Indra started as a very important figure within the Indo-Aryian and/or Vedic tribes (the names of the tribes and predecesors in that part of the world are a bit complicated for me so I haven't been able to follow up the story that well) but when the Brahmans came in and the whole thing about violence became kind of outdated -no need to fight against anyone anymore, let's keep the status quo people- he became sort of a must-have god because he had his own very significant flock, but his adhesion to violent stuff like thunders and war wasn't of the Brahmans liking so they took all his good qualities and gave them to a new god, Shiva, and left him as sort of the target of other gods looking to make trouble, but because 'fighting' wasn't fashionable or supported the excuse was 'let's revenge something bad Indra did since the begining of time', and on they went to Indra and did something to him like making him look stupid with something he said, or adding hundreds of cuts on his body or humilliate him in front of the Creator himself or something like that really really bad.
That way his followers could keep him but they needed to really take good care of him if they wanted to keep him alive especially when he got in really deeeeeeeep trouble, which was pretty much all the time.

Happens that I'm a very strong woman, very passionate and action oriented, even impulsive.
What to do with a god (a GOD for all things) that 'takes it' with such a passive 'that's the way it is' attitude but to look at it with a microscope or something.
And then I have the word Fertility following me around, what's about that?

Sure Indra was also taken as a fertility god because he brought the monsoon -so needed for the agriculture in India- back to Earth when he fought against a dragon who had kidnapped the water.
Ah! that sounded cool...the story of the dragon kept me hopeful.
It reminded me of my favorite Christian saint, Saint George and indeed that saint is named in some websites where Indra is compared with other mythological figures.
But the excitement flunked when I read over and over and over again how bad he was treated later on and worst, that he took it as is, like: no confrontation or protest or anything.

What an inspirational figure is that when I'm going through one of my existential 'moves' and I need a role model I can look up to. If at least he was a she I might be able to see something I could talk about with interest.

And then, when I thought that everything was lost two things came up in my research, a very interesting twist to the story:
First, some authors stated that the famous swastika, the infamous Nazis' symbol that they actually stole (what a surprise) from the Vedas, was a sign depicting Indra!
Given that Indra was the god of Heavens, as in the atmosphere-Heaven and all its related phenomena: wind, sunny skies, rain, snow, you name it; and all those things came from all directions, Indra's figure is sometimes represented with four arms that point to the East, West, North and South, you take his human figure out, you draw a line following his arms and what you have?: a swastika!

So cool!
What a 'coincidence': a Jewish woman, interested in Kabbalah, researching about a Hindu mytical figure that is said to be the origin of the swastika!
What a trip!
Got to look more into that

And then another BIG, and I mean a HUGE one....

Some of the authors I read over the Internet stated that Indra's feminine equal is...... no more and no less than the MOTHER Goddess of them all:

KALI!

Now that got me really really happy and interested.

When I was a young post-teenager woman I was told that I was Kali's daughter and that the older I'll got the more similar I'd be to her.

Could that be true? that Indra and Kali are related in any way?

She also is shown with 4 arms, like Indra.
I've read that Kali was born from parts of other gods who needed someone to help them fight against demons, they mixed their best weapons and skills and Kali showed up.
I also have read that Kali was Shiva's consort and as such she had complementing attributes that were very Indra-like but in a woman so it was easier to relate to for a Buddhist in a way (I guess)

Why I like Kali so much?
(besides the good memories of my early 20's)
She's a central figure in Tantric Yoga which happens to be a modality of Kundalini Yoga that my Sikh friends in L.A. practice and teach.
What I like the most from Kali though is that she destroys to create, she's wise and motherly, she's the one that makes chaos as something to be confronted to bring wisdom. She's described as young and beautiful, has a gentle smile, and is wise beyond her years.

If that's so, if Kali is the woman-version of Indra the word Fertility makes sense in this whole ordeal, because most of the time after I've heard, read or talked about something related to Fertility, somehow the figure of Kali showed up: in a website, in a store I walk by, in a t-shirt someone is wearing, somewhere.

And if that's just coincidence then I don't think I know what coincidence really is.

Any ideas?