Reading Notes: Sacred Tales of India, Part C
Sacred Tales of India
-Why do many of the gods go by multiple names, some of them affecting how people worship?
-Why did the mother flee with "consternation?" Is there further explanation for this?
-So Mahadeo just leaves Padma without eyes? He just makes her a friend from his tears? Useless.
-A man does not wish to worship Padma, for he thinks she's not really a goddess, so she kills all his sons. Cool.
-WHy is everyone so extra?
-Padma chases this man across oceans to make him worship her.
-Finally, her friends help her, and they become reborn as influence to the man, and they want to force him to worship Padma.
-Why are they so supportive? She's being ridiculous.
-She finally forces him to worship her by killing his new son and then bringing him back to life. The man also happened to be the most influential man in the world so everyone else worshiped him too.
-Vishnu's ceremony involves strange posture to be done by female worshippers.
-The palace sweeper does not like seeing the king's face in the morning (childless people are believed to have been evil in a past life) so he gets up early to eat.
-The king hears him explaining this.
-A god tells the king he'll help him have children as long as he gives up one of them.
-He gives food to the queens that will help them get pregnant, but the oldest two eat it without giving any to the youngest.
-The youngest licks the cup it came in, so she only gives birth to a shell.
-Where did the shell come from? Why?
- Oh, the shell housed a boy!
-He is taken by the yogee from the beginning, and goes to a cabin in the woods. He is allowed to eat and walk wherever, but he must stay away from the south of the forest.
-He finds a beautiful girl when he breaks that rule.
-She tells him the yogee is evil! (I could've told you that).
-They devise a plan to escape the yogee, which ends with the prince cutting off the yogee's head.
-They return to the palace and live happily ever after.
Bibliography: "Sacred Tales of India." D.N. Neogi. 1916. Source: Sacred Tales of India
Sword Art Online by Kokoyumi on DesktopNexus
-Why do many of the gods go by multiple names, some of them affecting how people worship?
-Why did the mother flee with "consternation?" Is there further explanation for this?
-So Mahadeo just leaves Padma without eyes? He just makes her a friend from his tears? Useless.
-A man does not wish to worship Padma, for he thinks she's not really a goddess, so she kills all his sons. Cool.
-WHy is everyone so extra?
-Padma chases this man across oceans to make him worship her.
-Finally, her friends help her, and they become reborn as influence to the man, and they want to force him to worship Padma.
-Why are they so supportive? She's being ridiculous.
-She finally forces him to worship her by killing his new son and then bringing him back to life. The man also happened to be the most influential man in the world so everyone else worshiped him too.
-Vishnu's ceremony involves strange posture to be done by female worshippers.
-The palace sweeper does not like seeing the king's face in the morning (childless people are believed to have been evil in a past life) so he gets up early to eat.
-The king hears him explaining this.
-A god tells the king he'll help him have children as long as he gives up one of them.
-He gives food to the queens that will help them get pregnant, but the oldest two eat it without giving any to the youngest.
-The youngest licks the cup it came in, so she only gives birth to a shell.
-Where did the shell come from? Why?
- Oh, the shell housed a boy!
-He is taken by the yogee from the beginning, and goes to a cabin in the woods. He is allowed to eat and walk wherever, but he must stay away from the south of the forest.
-He finds a beautiful girl when he breaks that rule.
-She tells him the yogee is evil! (I could've told you that).
-They devise a plan to escape the yogee, which ends with the prince cutting off the yogee's head.
-They return to the palace and live happily ever after.
Bibliography: "Sacred Tales of India." D.N. Neogi. 1916. Source: Sacred Tales of India
Sword Art Online by Kokoyumi on DesktopNexus
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