Vetali

Vetali (San.) is a mahakali who has been a traditional protectress of the Practice Lineage since the time of Naropa and Marpa.

She is dark blue with red hair and four arms, wearing a skull crown and bone ornaments, seated on a saddle of human bone and a saddle cloth of human skin.

She has chains around her ankles. She rides over a blood lake on a donkey marked with a white blaze.

She is the consort of Four-Armed Mahakala.

It is said that when Vetali lived in the realm of the gods, she was very naughty, perpetrating all kinds of pranks and generally upsetting things.

This disturbed the king of gods, as well as Yama, Lord of Death.

Trying to uphold the orderly functioning of the kingdom, they arrested this daughter of unpredictability and threw her in chains.

She escaped on the back of her donkey.

When an arrow from the pursuing armies wounded the donkey in its left hind quarter, the wound transformed itself into an eye, which represents her watchfulness to defeat any kind of obstacle to her activity.