Reading Notes: Sacred Tales of India, Part B
Sacred Tales of India
-What is the significance of the ritual other than to annul sins? Who is allowed to perform it?
-Why did the gods test the brother and sister in such a way? Could there be another way to test such faith?
-I thought the ceremony was to last a long time? A year or more? So why was the bull returned almost immediately?
-Bijaya ends up marrying the king of the dead (because of a boon Parvati granted her). She went to the torture lands even though she wasn't supposed to..... and found her mother :(
-She promises to get her mother out, although I suppose that isn't possible.
-This story is a bit anti-climactic, as Bijaya goes to her brother to make him give up some of his boon so their mom will be released.
-He refuses, so Bijaya goes to a mother who is dying in childbirth and asks her to do the same. She also refuses. But Bijaya presses her, and then she agrees.
-This just seems so straightforward and boring. I want more action, more persuasion.
-The next ceremony is for a beautiful goddess who appears in the form of rice and a leaf in a triangle. That's pretty cool, but I wish I knew why.
-A man is married to two women, but he loves the younger more (go figure). The younger gets him to banish the other for being jealous.
-The banished wife learns of a man who was brought great wealth by ceasing hunting and taking up worshipping the goddess Mangal-Chandi.
-She wished to worship the goddess, but she could not afford the object needed, so she used some rice, a flower, and some blades of grass.
-Is this where the representation of the goddess comes from?
-Her husband appeared before her and begged for her back, and she agreed.
-She has a son!
Bibliography: "Sacred Tales of India." D.N. Neogi. 1916. Source: Sacred Tales of India
HBD Fuwa! by Kanekiru on DeviantArt. Source: Pinterest
-What is the significance of the ritual other than to annul sins? Who is allowed to perform it?
-Why did the gods test the brother and sister in such a way? Could there be another way to test such faith?
-I thought the ceremony was to last a long time? A year or more? So why was the bull returned almost immediately?
-Bijaya ends up marrying the king of the dead (because of a boon Parvati granted her). She went to the torture lands even though she wasn't supposed to..... and found her mother :(
-She promises to get her mother out, although I suppose that isn't possible.
-This story is a bit anti-climactic, as Bijaya goes to her brother to make him give up some of his boon so their mom will be released.
-He refuses, so Bijaya goes to a mother who is dying in childbirth and asks her to do the same. She also refuses. But Bijaya presses her, and then she agrees.
-This just seems so straightforward and boring. I want more action, more persuasion.
-The next ceremony is for a beautiful goddess who appears in the form of rice and a leaf in a triangle. That's pretty cool, but I wish I knew why.
-A man is married to two women, but he loves the younger more (go figure). The younger gets him to banish the other for being jealous.
-The banished wife learns of a man who was brought great wealth by ceasing hunting and taking up worshipping the goddess Mangal-Chandi.
-She wished to worship the goddess, but she could not afford the object needed, so she used some rice, a flower, and some blades of grass.
-Is this where the representation of the goddess comes from?
-Her husband appeared before her and begged for her back, and she agreed.
-She has a son!
Bibliography: "Sacred Tales of India." D.N. Neogi. 1916. Source: Sacred Tales of India
HBD Fuwa! by Kanekiru on DeviantArt. Source: Pinterest
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