Human Inventions are inspired by The Human Body

Follow up:

Kali is a godess from India. This god is known for having multiple arms as shown in the photo below.

As with all other entries in this blog, the godess Kali is based on something from the human body.

In Asian philosophy, there is a concept of the Internal and External parts of the body. The arms, legs and torso can be divided into Internal and External parts. This has significance in the way the body is moved and various abilities the body may or may not have.

The multiple arms of the goddess Kali are inspired by the internal and external parts of the arms. If the arms are divided into internal and external halves, there would be 4 arms. Moving the arm using external power is different from moving the arm using internal power. It almost feels as if that are two arms on the skeleton bones of each arm.

I believe the goddess Kali statue being built like this is an attempt to pass on the knowledge about internal and external parts of the body to future society. Future societies would wonder why the statue had 4 arms and then think about it until they discovered internal and external strength.

Further corroboration can be found for this claim in the legs of the statue. If you inspect the right leg of Kali, there is an obvious delineation between the squarish front part of the lower leg and the rounded rear part of the lower leg. This is significant because the boundary that is so obvious between the two halves is, in general, the boundary for the internal and external halves of the lower leg.

The leg is purposefully turned outward to focus the viewers attention on it. Why? To expose the obvious dark border between the two exaggeratedly different external and internal halves of the lower leg is a reasonable explanation.