tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71847948292078720272024-03-04T22:52:45.363-08:00Myths and Mythology - The Commonsmamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-45393367313758368072014-05-10T05:10:00.002-07:002014-05-10T05:10:49.119-07:00Mimir/Odin and Shiva/Kannapar - Eye donors of mythological era<br />
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<strong>Norse mythology</strong> - Barter<br />
Mimir wisest god in Midgard. He had lovely garden with rare plants around a adorable precious fountain. Any one who drank water from that fountain became wise.<br />
Odin he approached Mimir and asked him to let him drink water in order to obtain wisdom. But Mimir demanded price for that. Odin was ready to offer all the riches of Asgard, Midguard everything. And he said that since he is king of all men and gods he had to obtain wisdom. He was even to offer his 8 legged horse Sleipnir but Mimir wasn't interested in tangible assests and wanted an important part of his body as price and Odin agreed and he pulled out his eye and paid the price.<br />
After having a drink from that fountain, Odin become so wise, clairvoyant everything. <br />
Before drinking from the fountain, he had no brains, else why would he pull out his eye when he was alive?<br />
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To rule men and gods you need to have wisdom? what a lousy thought. Leaders of nation aren't supposed to have brains.<br />
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<strong>Hindu mythology</strong> - Donate<br />
Kannapar: "Kan" literally means eye. Kannapar was born as Thinnan in a hunter family. He didnt know how to worship Lord Shiva - Lingam. <br />
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Idol worship has some rituals - wash the idol with water, turmeric, milk, mashed banana and honey and much more and then wash again and then decorate the idol with flowers and clothes and jewels while chanting slogans in sanskrit or archaic tamil chants.<br />
Thinnan's way of worshipping included washing no bathing linga with spit. He would fill his mouth with water from river nearby and then spit on the idol and then throw flowers on the idol and he serve the idol flesh and raw meat from the prey he hunted. <br />
He basically desecrated the sanctorum. Shiva loved it and accepted his devotion. <br />
One day to test and prove his devotion to others, the eyes of lingam came alive and the hunter was all excited and danced in excitement and trance. Then one of the eyes from the lingam started to bleed and Thinnan couldnt do anything to stop it, so he used his arrow and pulled out his eyeball (slumdog spoon the eyes?) and placed it on the idol. Then the bleeding stopped. Later other eye started to bleed and this time, the hunter placed his foot on the other eye, and started to pull out his other eye. <br />
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He did so because he thought that after losing the second eye he maynt be able to find the eye in the idol and his foot marked the spot, Eye-stein hunter?<br />
Then Shiva appeared before him and restored his eyes and made him Kannapa nayanar and gave him place in his abode Kailash - Nayanar/Nachiyar is kinda Duke/Duchess title with immortality in hindu mythology.<br />
<strong>Moral of the story:</strong><br />
Morons donate their organs when they are alive and mega morons don't even after they are dead. mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-60727323789396286372014-05-03T09:17:00.001-07:002014-05-03T09:17:25.838-07:00Crow/Apollo and Elephant/Dirgathapas - Cursed flyer and cursed singer<b>Liar! Liar! your wings arent on Flyer </b><br />
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<b>Greek mythology</b> : White lies leads to black feathers<br />
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<br /><b>Corvus, the Crow</b><br />Legend
tells us that the crow once had silver white feathers and a beautiful
singing voice. One morning the god Apollo sent the crow to fetch a cup
of water.<br />
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Having spied some half-ripened figs, the crow lingered at the
spring waiting for them to ripen. He had quite a feast, but soon
realized he was due for a scolding from Apollo for his tardiness.<br />
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crow lied to Apollo about his whereabouts but Apollo could easily tell
the crow was lying.<br />
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He angrily punished him by changing the color of his feathers to black and condemning him to be known in the future for his croak instead of his song.<br /><br /><b>Hindu mythology : </b>Even non-flyers hate heavy flyers<br />
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<br />In
olden days elephants had wings and they were able to fly. One day they
tried to rest on top of a big tree and a yogi was teaching his students
under that tree. And the branches broke unable to withstand the weight of
the tree and it fell on the kids and also on the yogi.<br />
This pushed Yogi
into raging fire of inferno, as usual as any Yogi he cursed the
elephants to loose their wings. And from that day onwards elephants had
no wings and they lost their flight. <br /><br />So, what would have Yogi
done if any bird shat on him? He would have cursed them to be deprived
of ..? whatever, I think people in olden days needed more anger management
classes.<br />
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Yogis are supposed to meditate everyday if not all day.<br />
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Reminds
me of Seinfield episode, <i><b>"Serenity now" </b></i><br />
"Bottles up the anger and then eventually and you blow"<br />
"You were in the nut house"<br />
"What do you think put me there?"<br />
"They found a family in your freezer"<br />
<i><b>"Serenity now, insanity later"</b></i><br /><br /><b>Moral of the story:</b><br /><br />There is a
reason why cherries grow on trees big and huge and pumpkins grow on
creepers. You wouldnt mind standing under a cherry tree but under a
pumpkin tree? <br />Ok, crow is despicable because of black feathers and croak - what about seagulls then?mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-33458546347683295192014-04-26T14:54:00.000-07:002014-05-03T09:18:23.150-07:00 Cat/Thor and Monkey/Bheema - Light lifting is heavy<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<b>Norse mythology: Cat's paw</b><br />
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Utgard-Loki(King of Frost giants) gave Thor number of tests to prove his strength. <br />
1. Drain the horn in three drought: He was able to drink he wasnt able to empty it.<br />
2. Lift the cat: He was able to move only one paw<br />
3. Move the grandma : He wasnt able to move grandma but she managed to bring him to his knee.<br />
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Thor is one of The mightest gods in Norse mythology. He is the strongest, heaviest and bravest of all. <br />
Thor couldnt pass single test and he left in shame next day. <br />
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<b>Trick: </b><br />
Then the king reveled Thor that the cat's paw was the enormous serpent Jormungand who was long and strong that he could circle the entire world. And being able to lift his paw was remarkable. The horn had its other end in sea. And that old age woman, against her no man had any defense. So, Thor didnt loose but magic just won.<br />
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<b>Hindu mythology: Monkey's tail</b><br />
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Not just between Norse/Greek/Indian mythologies you have stories similar in their own mythologies. In Ramayana Sita would urge her husband Rama to catch a golden deer. In Mahabharatha Draupati asked one of her husbands Bheema to fetch the fragrant lotus flowers after getting to smell one of them brought to her by the wind.<br />
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Bheema went in search of those flowers and on the way he saw a old fragile monkey with its tail stretched on his path way. He kinda raised his voice and told monkey in a patronizing tone "monkey, move your tail". The monkey replied, "I am too old and weak, if you could please move the tail yourself"<br />
Bheema got down to move the tail but he couldnt, he tried and tried but couldnt. <br />
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Bheema is one of the five brothers Pandhavas known for his strength. He is mightest of all and bravest and the heaviest as well. He never thought that he couldnt lift a fragile monkey's tail. He was humbled.<br />
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<b>Trick:</b><br />
With humility he requested monkey to reveal himself realising that it could be no ordinary monkey. Then the monkey revealed himself - it was none other than the Monkey god - Hanuman from Ramayana who served Rama and Sita. <br />
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<b>Moral of the story:</b><br />
King George is an hero in British and vicious villain in France.<br />
Sleeping with many is termed as as macho-stud in men and as slutty in women. <br />
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In my story, if I dont win something, it is always because of tricks and magic by the bad-guys.mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-27186160929112524612014-04-19T07:40:00.002-07:002014-04-23T17:54:32.233-07:00Poseidon/Athena and Sakthi/Shiva : Gender wars<b>Greek mythology</b><br />
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<b>Contest: </b><br />
The King Cecrops wanted to find a patron deity for his city state. Both Poseidon and Athena wanted to be the deity. In order to choose one of them, the city patrons set a contest and both of them were to give the most valuable gift to the city. <br />
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<b>Poseidon: </b><br />
<b> </b>He struck the earth powerfully and created a well with his trident. Immediately, streaming water shot forth, but the water turned out to be salty and not very useful for the population.(Some claim that he struck his trident and brought a horse)<br />
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<b>Athena:</b><br />
Athena stepped forward, struck her spear into the ground and then she kneeled and planted an olive branch in it. This way she created an olive tree, as a symbolization of peace and prosperity on earth. <br />
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<b>Winner: </b>Athena won because her Olive tree shall become Greek identity for centuries. Virgin Olive? I dont know about that. Olive garden is mini-Itlay not exactly mini-greece.<br />
The city was named as Athens to honor Athena.<br />
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The angry and insulted Poseidon cursed Athens with water shortage problem.<br />
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<b>Hindu mythology</b><br />
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<b>Contest: </b><br />
Dakshan father for Sakthi conducted Yaga(special prayer) and invited everyone except his son-in-law Lord Shiva and his eloped daughter Shakthi. The enraged Shakthi came down to fight with her dad for disrespecting her husband. Shiva warned her that she wouldnt be able to convince him or make things right instead she shall only be humiliated. She fought with him and went against Shiva's warning. She and her hubby both were humiliated and insulted and she jumped into fire to disrupt the yaga. <br />
Shiva rescued her from fire and took her to his abode Kailash and the fight continued and he pulled "I told you so". The enraged Sakthi fought back saying there is no Shiva without Sakthi and Shiva argued back saying there is no Sakthi without Shiva.<br />
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<b>Shiva:</b><br />
Both fought tooth and nail - say she threw necklace as eagle to fight his snake which he wore as a ornament around his neck. The fight is called Rudrathandavam (angry-dance).<br />
<b>Sakthi:</b><br />
At his height of rage, Shiva lifted Sakthi and put her on his shoulder and spun her around non-stop in extreme force and speed. Sakthi's bodies tore into 108 pieces and landed on earth. Every part that fell on earth became holy place of worship for Shakthi. They even have a temple in India where her vagina fell down and is worshipped by all women who have menstrual problems. <br />
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<b>Fun fact:</b><br />
That is India for you, they wont allow women inside temple during menstrutal period or dare to touch a woman during her menstrual period(not in 50Shades of Grey way). But, no woman shall be allowed inside home during her time of the month or be allowed to cook or touch anyone.<br />
But they built a temple for Sakthi's vagina(Yoni) (Kamagiri in Assam) and till day they do special poojas(prayers) and they close temple for three days (Ambuvachi) and reopen on fourth day during her "time of the month".<br />
Do you also know - one of Lord Vishnu's avatar Ranganathan's consort/concubine is a muslim(Nachiyar) and she has her own temple but in the same Ranganathan temple in Srirangam they dont allow non-hindus inside the shrine?<br />
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Finally all other gods and subjects pleaded to Shiva and subdued his rage and he brought Sakthi back alive. Verdict was - the world needs both Shiva and Sakthi - both equally and Shiva doesnt exist without Sakthi and Sakthi doesnt exist without Shiva. The unison of both - lingam - is the most powerful of all.<br />
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<b>Winner :</b><br />
Ardhanarishavar - Androgynous form of both Shiva and Sakthi. Half of Shiva and Half of Sakthi. No not trangenders. They are upper half and lower half - horizontal whereas Ardhanarishvar is left half(Sakthi) and right half(Shiva).<br />
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<b>Moral of the story: </b><br />
In the fight versus Men Vs Women,clearly the winner is always a woman. It is always a pyrhic victory for men. Never ever fight a gal. <br />
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See, Poseidon made water salty and non-potable and cursed Athens with watershortage problems adding more oily points to Athena and Shiva tore Sakthi to pieces gaining more sympathy votes for Parvati.<br />
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Joe Biden Vs Sarah Palin or Hilary Clinton Vs Sarah Palin?mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-76380151011621543472014-03-29T18:21:00.001-07:002014-04-23T17:55:00.502-07:00Myrrha and Saraswati - Woody Allens of yesteryear <div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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<b>Myrrha:</b><br />
Dad- Cinyras and mother - Cenchresis. <br />
<b>The curse:</b><br />
Because of the curse , she was unable to suppress her forbidden love and desire on her dad and tried to commit suicide. The nurse who took pity on her accepted to become her pimp and disguised her and sent her to her dad's room. <br />
<b>Take "no" for an answer:</b><br />
She was infatuated with her but her dad wasnt. So, she decided to cheat and trick her dad to have an affair with her.She disguised herself and in the dark continued the affair for several nights all the while Cinyras only knew that he was sleeping with someone of his daughter Myrrah's age but didnt know that it was Myrrah herself. <br />
<b>Disguise and the chase:</b> <br />
When he came to know of it, he tried to kill her and she ran away from him to save her life. She prayed to gods to be relieved from all the suffering. On her request they turned her into a tree and after 9-10 months she delivered her son Adonis while she was in tree form.<br />
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<b>Saraswati</b>:<br />
When Brahma created the world from chaos , to bring order he had bring knowledge. And Sarawati- goddess of knowledge emerged from his mouth. Under her tutelage Brahma acquired wisdom and everything. He feel in love with his own creation but Sarawati denied. <br />
<b>Disguise and the chase:</b><br />
In order to escape from his advances she took cow avatar and ran away but Brahma chased her in form of bull. This game continued<br />
Sarawati - mare, Brahma - Horse. Brahma even gave himself 4 heads on four sides to hunt Sarawasti anyform. Both of them werent ready to give up.<br />
Angered Sarawasti cursed him that he shall have no temple for he deserves no reverence. But Brahma wasnt ready to give up. He added one more head on the top to hunt for Saraswati. <br />
<b>Help arrived "Indian style"</b><br />
Enraged Shiva came to Sarawasti's rescue and chopped off his top head and Saraswati took pity on him and Brahma lust subdued and he had to do a puja/yagna(prayer) to cleanse himself and to do yagna he needed a wife.<br />
So, Brahma married Saraswati.<br />
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If you watch any Indian movie, this maynt surprise you, the punishment for rapists in India - marry his victim. (Brahma style)<br />
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<b>Moral of the story:</b><br />
Whether it is god or the beast , the beauty has to marry the perv.mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-57758347093960571242014-03-20T19:55:00.004-07:002014-03-20T19:55:32.729-07:00Semele and Sanjna - Spouse is on fire, no, he is fire?<br />
<strong>Greek mythology:</strong> <br /><strong>Semele</strong>: The mortal that got burnt <br />
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<br />Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia.<br />
<strong>Semele and Zeus:</strong><br /> Zeus the playboy god of Olympus, fell in love with Semele just like other zillion women.<br />The jealous Hera,wife of Zeus, wanted to break it off. She disguised herself as nurse Beroe and served Semele and gained trust with Semele. <br />
When Semele became pregnant, Hera put an idea into her mind. She sowed seeds of doubt and jealousy in Semele. <br />Hera persuaded Semele to push Zeus to show his true-self ie god-like form to her. <br />
<strong>Fire and the heat:</strong><br /> And the brainwashed Semele asked Zeus to reveal his true form and wasnt ready to take NO for an answer. <br />Zeus, revealed himself in his full lightning-ignited flame, and that killed the frail human Semele. <br />
<strong>Kid:</strong><br /> Before her body was cold, Zeus snatched the unborn fetus from her and sewed it into his own thigh. <br />The son, Dionysus born via seahorse pregnancy of Dionysus, with the permission of Zeus, went to the Underworld Hades and raised his mother Semele from the dead and brought her to Olympus and made her immortal goddess Thyone.<br />
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<strong>Hindu mythology:</strong> Run-away bride<br /><strong>Sanjna</strong>:<br />Daughter of celestial architect and designer Viswakarma. <strong>Sanjna and Surya:</strong><br />From childhood she enjoyed outdoors just to enjoy the warmth of the sun, she loved Sun. The parents noted their daughter's crush and when it was right time, they married off Sanjna to the Sun the god Surya. <br />
<strong>The fire and the heat:</strong><br />She was happy before Summer, but around Summer, she started to feel the radiance and unbearable heat of Sun. She couldnt bear the glow and the heat and wanted to leave him.<br />
<strong>Anti-elope:</strong><br /> She created a lookalike of herself Chhaya - Goddess Shadow and replaced her in her place. Then Sanjna morphed herself into a mare and left Sun and her three kids to a jungle to live far away from Sun's heat and radiance.<br />
Sun didnt notice that he had been duped and continued with Chhaya instead of Sanjna for longtime. One day when his wife's curse on his kid Yama came to effect, he knew that Chhaya wasnt Sanjna. (Mom's curse on her own kid doesnt come true, yeah right).<br /> After learning the truth from Chhaya, he went in search of Sanjna.<br />
<strong>Kids:</strong><br />Not to tick her off, he morphed himself into a horse and chased her, lured her and reconciled with her and lived with her for a while before he brought her back home.<br /> She gave birth to twins Ashvins- the divine horsemen.<br />
<br />I always wanted to have a identical twin sister for this reason. And wanted to give birth to identical twins. I got twins but fraternal twins :) Sun couldnt figure out that he was living with another woman but figured out based on cursing?<br />
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<strong>MORAL OF THE STORY:</strong><br />Not able to break up with your galfriend? or need to divorce your wife?<br />Try,<br />" I showed my true form and my wife burned to ashes"<br />" This is not she, this is her lookalike, shadow "<br /> you may be sent to psychiatric ward for a while, which is still a victory, right?mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-48304301844978069332014-03-15T16:29:00.000-07:002014-03-15T16:29:07.626-07:00Endymion/Selene and Kumbakarnana/Saraswati - Women in white as white noise and hibernation<br />
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<strong>Endymion</strong> - Greek Mythology<br />Son of Zeus and Calyce<br />
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<strong>The goddess Selene:</strong>Selene, the moon goddess fell in love with beauty and handsomeness of the sleeping Endymion when he was slumbering in cave of Mt.Latmus.<br />
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<br /><strong>The gift and the curse:</strong><br />His lover Selene asked Zeus to give him eternal youth and eternal sleep and immortality so that she could come everynight and violate him when he is sleeping. The moon goddess visited him during his sleep not in his sleep and slept with him and they had 50 kids. 50 stars? Not sure.<br />
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See, in fairytales the prince always has to kiss the sleeping beauties to wake them up and then make love to them. Here the beauty put the prince to sleep and then kissed him and made love to him. And she had 50 kids with him. <br />
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Nappily ever before? Women should have the power of NO and also the impulse control I guess. <br />
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<br /><strong>Kumbakarnan</strong> - Hindu mythology<br />Brother of antagonist Ravana in Ramayan.<br />
He is huge and had a enormous appetite. Not just monstrosity of his size, but his pious and good natured attitude and courage made even the Lord of Deva's Indra jealous and be afraid of him. <br />
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<strong>The goddess Saraswati:</strong><br />Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge,speech and education in hinduism and also wife of Brahma.<br />
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After Kumbakarna's deep penance Lord Brahma appeared before him and asked him what did he want as a gift. The scared Indra who didnt want Kumbakarna to be given any blessing begged Brahma's wife Sarawasti to alter his words by manipulating his tongue.<br />
<strong>The gift and the curse</strong><br />He wanted to ask for Indra's seat (Indrasena) and instead Sarawasti made it to come out as Nidrasaana(bed to sleep) and another one was Nirdevatnam(annihilation of Devas) instead Brahma heard it as Nirdravatnam(sleep). <br />
<br />Brahma granted what he heard that is the cursed gift which was "He would sleep for six months in a year and stay awake for another six months"<br />
and if he ever were to be awaken during his hibernation period he would die. <br />
During Ramayana war, his brother forced and woke him up during his deep slumber and Kumbakarna died in the war. <br />
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There is a saying in Indian culture that you are not to wake any sleeping soul. That's one of the greatest sins.<br />
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<strong>Moral of the story:</strong><br />
Which is the bigger crime? Which is more immoral?<br />1.Putting a man to sleep and then violating him and getting the worst STD possible - kids - 50 kids. <br />(or)<br />2.When the man goes on deep penance ie skip food, sleep and pleasures of life for life and when he is about to get lucky with boon/gift from the god, you mess it up and change it to curse and change the climax forever? <br />
<br />mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-74683127364769353182014-02-27T17:05:00.002-08:002014-02-27T17:58:59.603-08:00Iduna and Sita - Abducted women refuse to share their apples/cookies<a href="http://levigilant.com/Bulfinch_Mythology/bulfinch.englishatheist.org/b/guerber/Chapter7.htm"></a><br />
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<strong>Norse mythology:</strong><br />
<strong>Iduna</strong>:-Wife of Bragi <br />
She had a wonderful garden with flowers , greens and blossoms everywhere. She had a apple casket where she had apples of youth. The casket never ran out, if she pulled one apple out, it got refilled with another apple automatically. The gods and goddess of Aesir- Asgard came to her garden and ate her apples and thus were able to beat mortality. The magic apples helped them maintain their youth and health forever.<br />
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<strong>The bait:</strong><br />
Loki had to fulfill a promise he made to Giant Thiassi, and that was to get him access to Iduna's apples. So, he tricked Iduna - he told her that nearby he saw another apple tree and the apples from that tree were more delicious and bigger and better than Iduna's. That definitely bruised her ego. He asked her if she wanted to come and check it out herself. He asked her to carry her casket too to compare it then and there.<br />
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<strong>Hubby's warning:</strong><br />
Iduna was told by husband not to wander away from home, she momentarily ignored that and stepped out of her gate and the giant Thiassi seized the moment and snatched her and her casket in the form of eagle and kidnapped her to his place.<br />
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<strong>As hostage and Ellewoman: Jotunheim</strong><br />
She was held hostage there and she denied to share her apples with the giant. And if he tried to force himself to pick one from the casket the apple started to shrink , shrink and shrink away to nothing. <br />
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Everyday giant came to ask Iduna if she had made up her mind to give him apples. And Idun always replied "NO". She was held a prisoner with no men around except Thiassi and ever happy Ellewoman. Ellewomens' bodies were hollow lacking heart and they totally lacked compassion.<br />
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<strong>Hindu mythology:</strong><br />
<strong>Sita:</strong><br />
-Wife of Rama<br />
Rama was crown prince of Ayothya. His dad had to fulfill a promise he made to Rama's stepmom. Which was -Rama had to give up crown and be sent to forest for 14 years. During Rama's exile period in forest, he resided with Sita and his brother Lakshman in a small hut. <br />
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<strong>The bait:</strong><br />
Ravana - the evil king of Lanka asked his minion Maricha to disguise himself as a golden deer and chase the men out of the home. Maricha did and Sita asked her husband and her brother-in-law to go and catch the golden deer.<br />
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<strong>Hubby's warning:</strong><br />
The men left and asked her not to cross the magic line they drew around the hut to protect her. Ravana disguised himself as a yogi and asked Sita for food. When she came out with food, he refused and pretended to take offense when she refused to serve him crossing the line. Ravana couldn't cross the line. Sita didn't want to offend the yogi so she stepped out of line - literally, Ravana seized the moment and abducted her in his flying chariot - Vimana and took her to his place in Ceylon/Srilanka<br />
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<strong>As hostage and Rakshashi : Asoka vanam</strong><br />
She was held hostage there and she denied to share her cookies with the Rakshash . And if he tried to force himself on her, he would die that is a curse he accumulated for his previous rape attempt. So, in order to make her fall in love with him, he tried everything under the sun. He tried to lure her with all the things in the world. But Sita wasn't to budge. <br />
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Everyday Rakshash Ravana came to ask Sita if she had made up her mind to give him her cookie. And Sita always replied "NO". She was held a prisoner with no men around except Ravana and Rakshashis - amazon woman of hindu mythology. These women had to say stories about Ravana and praise him and make Sita fall in love with him. Sita lacked compassion. <br />
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<strong>Moral of the story: </strong><br />
Lord Rama after rescuing his dear wife Sita, asked her to bathe in FIRE (<span class="st"><em><strong>Panchagni</strong></em> - Agni pariksha</span>) to prove that she was indeed pure and she didn't share her cookie with anyone and she did and came out alive.<br />
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(If Sita was Andi and Rama was Juan Pablo of "The Bachelor" - ABC) Click <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/02/26/bachelor-recap-andi-rips-juan-pablo-for-being-arrogant-leaves-before-rose/">here</a><br />
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<em><strong>Sita</strong>: I realized I wasn't in love with you and I will never will. I waited to say that in person to you.</em><br />
<em><strong>Rama</strong> : Eesss oh-okay.</em><br />
<em><strong>Sita</strong>: Okay? It's NOT okay. I had my wonderful place all to myself , a wonderful beautiful garden and Rakshana women who waited on hand and foot for me, the Lankan king offered me everything under the sun to fall in love with him and I rejected everything and I put myself out here for you, all for what? For you to set me on FIRE?</em><br />
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<em><strong>Rama</strong> : Esss okay. </em><br />
<em> Did you die in the fire? No. </em><br />
<em> Am I disappointed - yeah.. but Esss..okay...</em><br />
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Maybe Sita is mother of all women who fall for badguys. Because nice ones - Essss NOT oh-kay?mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-8385818564350492162014-02-22T05:44:00.002-08:002014-02-22T05:44:59.359-08:00Vali and Garuda - Grown in a day to be a pawn in mom's revenge game <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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<strong>Norse mythology:</strong><br />
<strong>Frigga:</strong><br />
Mom of Baldr and wife of Odin<br />
<strong>Backstory:</strong><br />
Frigga was having nighmares about her son's demise. She prepared a list and asked everyone and everything to sign that they wont harm or kill her son. She didn't ask mistletoe since she felt it was too simple and fragile and couldn't harm her son. And so everyone did.<br />
<strong>Game:</strong><br />
Everyone got intrigued and played a game and entered testing ie poke, try to kill Baldr with all weapons and everything. Mom's petition and sign worked. Noone was able to kill Baldr. <br />
<strong>Death of half-brother:</strong><br />
The trickster Loki, knowing the missed out mistletoe list planed a trick. He tricked by tricking out Hoor's arrow with mistletoe and asked to join the game to test whether Baldr was truly invincible.<br />
Hoor was blind.<br />
Dad Odin even tried to revive or resurrect him by sending his other son Hermon to plead to Hel goddess to send him back. She agreed on one condition. If everyone wept for Baldr then she would send him back. Again, trickster Loki disguised himself as a witch and refused to cry. <br />
<strong>Revenge:</strong><br />
The deranged mommy ordered a plate of Vali- express overnite delivery..<br />
<strong>Vali:</strong><br />
Son of Odin and giantess Rindr.<br />
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He was born in a day and grew up to a full human and slayed Hoor instantly. <br />
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<strong>Hindu mythology: </strong><br />
<strong>Vinata:</strong><br />
Mom of Garuda and another half-born(Aruna) and wife of Kasyappa.<br />
<strong>Backstory:</strong><br />
Vinata and her sister Kadru were married to the same guy and both competed to become mom first. <br />
Both of their wishes were granted, Kadru was given 1000 snake eggs and Vinata two eggs. Snake egg hatched early and Vinata couldn't wait long so she impatiently broken one egg open.<br />
<strong>Death of half-brother:</strong><br />
Truly half-brother, because he wasn't born yet, since momma broke the egg early before it hatched, a half-human son from the broken egg came out furious and cursed his mom. <br />
"You would become a slave to your sister and my brother after longtime will come and free you"<br />
<strong>Game: </strong><a href="http://mamtc.blogspot.com/2011/08/aedonchelidon-and-vinatakadruva-winner.html">Story </a><br />
She lost a bet with her sister when they were playing game of white tail/black tail about the divine horse. Olden days blue car/red car. But loser becoming slave? Imagine that..<br />
<strong>Garuda:</strong><br />
Half-human and half-eagle born from second egg of Vinata and Kashyapa<br />
<strong>Revenge:</strong><br />
The second egg hatched Garuda, immediately he was all grown and was raging man of fire. He had the ability to grow to mountain-size or shrink pea-size as he wished.<br />
To release his mom from slavery he was to fetch elixir Amritha and give it to his cousin serpents. <br />
He did and to take revenge till day snakes became his meal - bread and butter.<br />
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Garuda was the ally of the gods and the trusty mount of Vishnu, as well as the implacable enemy of snakes, upon whom he preyed at every opportunity<br />
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<strong>Moral of the story:</strong><br />
Revenge is best served cold but the server should be delivered piping hot and should grow super fast. mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-51236457827720751362014-02-20T19:25:00.001-08:002014-02-23T06:46:54.037-08:00Erichthonius and Drona - Clone growing up in pot/box wombs<b>Erichthonius</b><br />
Son of Hephaestus but Athena<b> </b><br />
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<b>Hephaestus</b><br />
Hephaestus is half-brother of Athena. He even helped his dad deliver Athena from his head by axing it. <br />
<b>Athena</b><br />
Athena is virgin goddess. But when the virgin goddess sister came for help to procure some weapons, he overcame with lust and tried to chase and rape her. <br />
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The virgin goddess ran away rejecting his advances, the rejection led him to ejaculate. He did that on her thighs. The disgusted Athena wiped it away with wool and threw it in a box and closed it. That fluid become the monozygote (not a scientifically accurate term and this isn't a science blog ;)) for a fetus to develop inside the box. <br />
The box became the womb for Erichthonius to develop to a full term baby.<br />
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I have thought about making homemade shampoos instead of whalesperm shampoos - now I am truly terrified. I cant have fetus growing inside shampoo bottles.<br />
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Son of Bharadwaj but Ghritachi<br />
<b>Bharadwaj </b><br />
This sage was the son of Brihaspati. He had his hermitage on the banks of the river Ganga, close to the place where Ganga is born from the Himalayas. <br />
<b> </b>One day, he went to the river to purify himself before performing his daily AgniHotra (fire) sacrifice. The Ghritachi was bathing in the river. As she arose from the river, her clothes got rearranged. When the sage beheld her semi-clothed beauty, he was struck with burning desire. He collected the fluid that emerged spontaneously from his body in a water pot.<br />
Same logic, the monozygote developed to a fetus and grew up to become Drona.<br />
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This way doesn't involve morning sickness, mood swings or even the pot sized belly.<br />
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Pot becomes the belly.<br />
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<b>Moral of the story:</b><br />
Jerking off is genocide. Anti-masturbation is new code word for anti-infanticide.<br />
( Dont miss this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPZr6mmPy0">masterpiece </a>) <br />
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All pro-life warriors should fight against wanking and fight to death to save life of all these potential babies to be born from wank spills. mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-57306257079829675942014-02-14T20:54:00.000-08:002014-02-18T19:38:55.642-08:00Dionysus and Karthikeyan - Raised by constellation turned water-nymphs <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong>Dionysus and Karthikeyan - Raised by constellation turned water-nymphs </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Greek mythology:</strong><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="File:Waterhouse Hylas and the Nymphs Manchester Art Gallery 1896.15.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg/800px-Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg" height="198" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg/1200px-Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg/1600px-Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg 2x" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterhouse_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896.15.jpg"><strong>Image Source</strong></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><strong>Dionysus : </strong><br />Son of Zeus and mortal Semele<br /><strong>Trick and Fire and Birth:</strong><br /><strong>Trick: </strong><br />Hera the greeneyed wife of Zeus instead of confronting her playboy husband tricked Semele and planned her demise as well as her unborn's demise by asking her to request Zeus reveal himself in true form ie radiance, heat and light.<br /><strong>Fire:</strong><br />Zeus did comply though he didn't want to , Zeus came to her armed in his thunder and lightning and the mortal woman couldn't handle the all that and got burnt to ashes. Zeus revived his love-child fetus from ashes and sewed him in his thigh until he was ready to be born.<br /><strong>Birth: </strong><br />Dionysus is known as twice-born. The second birth was from fire and only Zeus was involved no intercourse, IUI or IVF. Dionysus is greek mythology version of cloned sheep Dolly :)<br /><strong>Water-nymphs:</strong><br />Dionysus was raised by water-nymphs ie rain-nymphs of Mount Nysa.<br />As a tribute they were turned to constellation called <strong>Pleiades</strong>. <br /><br /><strong>Hindu mythology:</strong><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDIVrtMCLTgmuuF05W0qdF59Yh0zQbBKg5PXzodChYQlemXQdaAFM6_02pVBlWqiCKDV2V8FwznT6iqI8Oa0kIuEQVbYFNdnUscubY0soh59tleia7y7FmqMerooMmb57UvxRaEfZdks/s1600/shiva_third_eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDIVrtMCLTgmuuF05W0qdF59Yh0zQbBKg5PXzodChYQlemXQdaAFM6_02pVBlWqiCKDV2V8FwznT6iqI8Oa0kIuEQVbYFNdnUscubY0soh59tleia7y7FmqMerooMmb57UvxRaEfZdks/s1600/shiva_third_eye.jpg" height="320" width="273" /></a></div><strong>Karthikeyan:</strong><br />Son of Shiva and Parvati.<br /><strong>Trick and Fire and Birth:</strong><br /><strong>Trick:</strong><br />A son born to Shiva and Parvati was supposed to kill the Tarakan an Asura(demon). But there was no romance sparking between Shiva and Parvati. So, the god of love "Kama" was sent to make Shiva fall in love with Parvati and impregnate her. He indeed shot flower arrow on Shiva while he was in deep penance, but instead of sparking romance it unleashed a Colorado forest fire of rage. The enraged Shiva burnt Kama to ashes.<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Fire:</strong><br />Then when Shiva cooled down, and after hearing to the need for a kid and why Kama had to shoot him and all, he agreed to comply. But inside of choosing to sleep with his wife and wait for another 10 months to pop out a kid, he fast tracked the process and he created six balls of fire from his third eye and created 6 boys.<br /><strong>Birth:</strong><br />Another version mentions that the furious Shiva was spilling all fire from his third eye and his semen aka six semen seeds in form of fire spilled in the Saravana tank ie water-form of his wife Parvati and thereby six kids were born.<br />What to say, the birth wasn't water-birth but an IVF experiment in a water tank instead of petri dish?<br /><strong>Water-nymphs:</strong><br />They were all merged to one kid known as Karthikeyan. (My favorite god by the way)<br />He was raised by six water-nymphs known as Krithikais. <br />As a thanks to their service they were all made to constellation called <strong>Krithikai</strong>. <br /><br /><strong>Moral of the story:</strong><br /> Lord Shiva had some serious semen spilling problem. I couldn't recollect any biological kid of his, <br />-Murugan - Semen spill in tank<br />- Ganesha - Born from turmeric mold made by Parvati (Turmeric pinnochio?)<br />-Ayyapa - Born from semen pill of Lord Shiva to LGBT transgender avatar of Lord Vishnu's - Mohini.<br />In Iyyapa story he was immediately all attracted to Vishnu's transgender form Mohini, but here even after Kama's help he couldn't impregnate his wife the traditional way. Even the almighty had performance problems. </div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-37412819914833622932012-07-19T03:36:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.651-08:00Arachne and Chenkannan - Spiderwoman and Spiderman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong>Greek mythology:</strong> Story starts off with a woman and her next life as Spider <br /><strong>Arachne</strong>: Wild-eyed<strike>*</strike> mortal <br />Mortal woman with excellent weaving and embroidery skills.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBhIIo4xyz7NIOBOBjDhFZE0YGfqSN_VMYf_hmpClrZRJVQpFE" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="213" data-width="157" height="213" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBhIIo4xyz7NIOBOBjDhFZE0YGfqSN_VMYf_hmpClrZRJVQpFE" style="height: 213px; width: 157px;" width="157" /></a></div><strong>Athena:</strong> Green-eyed<strike>*</strike> goddess <br />The greek goddess of wisdom and skill and elegance<br /><strong>Duel between the mortal and the goddess: </strong><br />She boasted too loud about her skills as a weaver. She once even boasted that she is better than Athena. <br />Annoyed by her arrogance, Athena called out a duel and both wove. <br /><br />Athena's work had God Poseidon and mortals as inferior beings to teach Arachne her place. <br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSblkNuJymDbjv_ARbYNg3qpNd9uhSTdPHyz9ZVuJdP_G9stZqK" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="246" data-width="176" height="246" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSblkNuJymDbjv_ARbYNg3qpNd9uhSTdPHyz9ZVuJdP_G9stZqK" style="height: 246px; width: 176px;" width="176" /></a>Arachne's work had the flaws of gods - illegitimate dirty playboy conquests of Zeus. <br /><br /><strong>Spider-after-woman:</strong> <br />This insult and mockery angered Athena and she struck the work with her shuttle and tore it into pieces. And she touched Arachne's head and injected guilt and shame. Which made the mortal woman hung herself on a rope. <br /><br /><strong>Curse:</strong> <br />To teach other mortals a lesson, Athena turned her into a spider. Till today the species Arachnida continues to hang on a thread and keeps weaving constantly and endlessly.<br /> ___________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong>Hindu mythology:</strong> Story starts off with a spider and it's next life as a King. <br /><strong>Chenkannan : </strong> Red-eyed king <br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfiAVAD16FFy7SkOzCQLdOm0i7Lcl05hGsRiGRer9gYEAMgM9_fw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="216" data-width="233" height="216" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfiAVAD16FFy7SkOzCQLdOm0i7Lcl05hGsRiGRer9gYEAMgM9_fw" style="height: 216px; width: 233px;" width="233" /></a>Chenkannan - Chola King, his name literally means red-eyed king. This king in his previous life was a pious wide-eyed spider. <br /><br /><strong>Spider</strong>: Wide-eyed<strike>*</strike> spider <br />Spider - ardent devotee of Lord Shiva. Daily it used to spin a web over Lingam (Idol of Shiva) under the Jambu tree to prevent it from getting soiled by falling leaves. <br /><strong>White elephant: </strong>open-eyed<strike>*</strike> elephant <br />And in same place another devotee of Shiva a white elephant lived too, which felt annoyed by the dirty web and cleaned the place to retain the holiness and adorned the linga with flowers. <br />Elephant clears the web and does puja and next day spider builds the web over the Linga to protect. This continued for sometime. <br /><strong>Duel between spider and the elephant: </strong><br />The annoyed spider one day entered into trunk of the elephant and bit it hard, the pain and poison caused the elephant to die. The spider died as well when Elephant fell to death.<br />Lord Shiva was pleased by service of both the Elephant and the Spider. <br /><br /><strong>Spider-before-man:</strong> <br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRruNLO1R2u0gIOWZZihztCRy-hjLnS8IimW9KphEn-Z3giryY" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="263" data-width="191" height="263" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRruNLO1R2u0gIOWZZihztCRy-hjLnS8IimW9KphEn-Z3giryY" style="height: 263px; width: 191px;" width="191" /></a>Lord Shiva gifted spider it's next life as a King. <br /><strong>Gifted curse:</strong> <br />Chenkannan built a huge temple for Lord Shiva in Thiruvanaikaval but the actual place of worship of Lord Shiva ie sanctum sanctorum would be small and is in basement level in contrast to the entire infrastructure of the temple. <br />Even in his next life as King he couldnt forget the feud with elephant and had to build the temple to prevent entry of elephants into Shiva's sanctum sanctorum ;-) <br /><br />*wild-eyed - idealistic and unrealistic<br />*green-eyed - jealousy<br />*wide-eyed - childlike<br />*open-eyed - watchful<br /><br /><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY: </strong><br /><br /><strong>Greek</strong> : You can take amour propre out of a mortal, but you cant take jealousy out of a goddess bitch. <br /><br /><strong>Hindu</strong> : You can make a king out of a spider, but you cant take the spider out of the king.</div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-47155337814253096342012-07-16T03:48:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.660-08:00Pelops and Chiralan - Sons offered as feast to Gods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/aworlds_media/ibase_1/00/07/54/00075437_000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt=" Pelops people at Zeu#83FF6.jpg" border="0" height="119" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/aworlds_media/ibase_1/00/07/54/00075437_000.jpg" vspace="0" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Post/1055177">Image source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><strong>Greek mythology:</strong><br /><strong>Pelops:</strong> <br />Son of Tantalus, king of Mt.Sipylus.<br /><strong>Cannibal feast:</strong><br />To offer Olympians maybe to humiliate them, the dad voluntarily cut his son Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew and served it to gods.<br />Demeter, who was mourning about her daughter's kidnap by Hdes wasnt thinking and ate the shoulder and the stew. The other gods understood the plot and got angry.<br /><strong>Resurrection:</strong><br />They brought Pelops back to life with the remains but since his shoulder was digested by Demeter, had to be replaced with ivory.<br /><strong>Gift:</strong><br />After Pelops' resurrection,he was taken to Olympus, was taught drive the divine chariot. <br /><br /><strong>Hindu mythology:</strong><br /><strong>Sreeralan/Chiralan:</strong><br />Son of Sirutonda, king of Chola dynasty.<br /><strong>Prelude:</strong><br />South-Indian puranas insist on importance of panhandling and "guest is god" mantra, in hinduism it is a great sin to deny food to a hungry soul and greater the sin to treat guests with disrespect. And if the beggar is a devotee of Shiva, all the more sinful.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shaivam.org/gallery/image/devotees/nachirut_i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.shaivam.org/gallery/image/devotees/nachirut_i.jpg" height="232" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shaivam.org/nachirut.html">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table>They have thousands of stories to insist this and playful avatar/disguise stories of the gods to test their devotee's devotion. This is one of them.<br /><br /><strong>Cannibal dinner:</strong><br />Lord Shiva once disguised as Vairavar and visited Sirutonda nayanar and asked for food. <br />He asked for a 5 year old boy without deformities to be cooked and served. <br />The parents compiled and happily cooked their son except the head and served their guest - panhandling devotee of Lord Shiva. <br /><br /><strong>Resurrection:</strong><br />Both started to eat and Vairavar insisted Chirutonda to ask his son to join the dinner. The confused helpless Sirutonda Nayyanar didnt know what to do and not to offend the guest he went out and called for his son, to both parent's surprise their son came running back. <br />The parents were so happy and rushed to see the guest, the dinner and the guest both had disappeared.<br /><strong>Gift:</strong><br />The lord Shiva, his wife Parvati and his sons Ganesha and Murugan showed up and blessed the family and took them to their abode in heaven and gave them place to reside there.<br /><br /><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY:</strong><br />You can accept and comply to the request of a cannibal only if he/she has the ability to resurrect. <br />Armin Meiwas - german cannibal , that Florida guy -Tyree Lincoln Smith can't bring you back to life, so politely refuse to serve them or to be served and call 911. <br /><br />My mom, while growing up, she would tell all these stories and read articles from newspapers about black magic which would say that all sacrifices would ask for the first born child. And she would say that a mom's position is justified if she has to sacrifice her kid, because she could pop out any baby anytime before menopause but if she looses her husband she just becomes an outcast. That taught me my place and deep inside that I should never say no to her, till today ;-) <br /><br />I behaved, I behave and I will behave, mommy. Indian tiger parenting for you all. ;-)<br /><br /></div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-25359016012044216042012-07-12T03:51:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.668-08:00Prometheus and Ganesha - Trickster Robin Hoods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong></strong><strong>Greek mythology:</strong> <br />Prometheus - Son of titan Iapetus and the nymph Asia. <br />He made human from clay - mud and water and combined it with wind - entire babyhood skipped and Athena brought it to life by breathing life into clay. <br />Prometheus made clay Pinocchio :) <br /><br /><strong>Settling of accounts: Mortals and Immortals </strong><br />In the trick at Mecone, a sacrificial meal marking the "settling of accounts" between mortals and immortals. <br />Prometheus placed two sacrificial offerings before the Olympian: <br />-a selection of beef hidden inside an ox's stomach (nourishment hidden inside a displeasing exterior), <br />- the bull's bones wrapped completely in "glistening fat" (something inedible hidden inside a pleasing exterior). <br />The obvious selfish Zeus chose the latter and realised that he had been tricked. <br /><br /><strong>Bring back fire to the humankind: </strong><br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYrqFIAxEBniGDQ6wmDaAji-1njRcIS_9pMcGKW-XH8lHl7JhB" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="160" data-width="315" height="160" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYrqFIAxEBniGDQ6wmDaAji-1njRcIS_9pMcGKW-XH8lHl7JhB" style="height: 160px; width: 315px;" width="315" /></a>He stole fire back in a giant fennel stalk and gave it back to mankind. <br /><strong>Punishment: </strong><br />-Settling of accounts - Zeus hid fire from humans <br />-Bring back fire to the humankind - Pandora, the first woman was sent to live with men. <br /><strong>Eternal punishment :</strong><br />Chained to rock in Caucasus and his liver is eaten by eagle daily and regenerated by night. <br /><br /><strong>Hindu mythology:</strong> <br />Ganesha - Son of Shiva and Parvati <br />He was made from sweat, scruff and turmeric paste by his mom and she gave him life - entire babyhood skipped. <br />Parvathi made scrub Pinnochio :) <br /><br /><strong>Settling the ideal spot for idol: Devas and Asuras (Demigods and Monsters)</strong><br />"Ranga Vimana" - Lord Vishnu's supreme idol was a gift given to Asura Vibhisana for his backstabbing service offered against his brother Ravana in Ramayana. He was supposed to take the gift to his hometown in SriLanka and wasnt supposed to place it on ground, because if he did so, it could never be lifted off from ground again. So, he flew with the idol to Sri Lanka. <br /><br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQIpYPPdnIWAOQfldqL-KLfHknZat2NVuV1tJOYigja4Nuqy7n" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="244" data-width="206" height="244" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQIpYPPdnIWAOQfldqL-KLfHknZat2NVuV1tJOYigja4Nuqy7n" style="height: 244px; width: 206px;" width="206" /></a><br />On his way to Lanka he saw Cauvery river and wanted to freshen up. Lord Ganesha disguised himself as a cowherd boy and presented himself in his vicinity. Vibhishana asked him to hold the idol and instructed him to not keep it on the ground till he finished bathing in the river. Lord Ganesha agreed and when Vibhisana dunked into river, Ganesha placed the idol on the ground in right spot. And that become one of the holy places for Lord Vishnu Srirangam. (Similar story exists for Gokarna, same kind of story but with Ravana and Mahabelshwar Temple - Lord Shiva and same trick by same Ganesha) <br /><strong>Punishment:</strong> <br />-When he spoiled Asura Vibhishna's plan, he chased him and hit him on his forehead before he revealed himself. <br /><strong>Eternal punishment: </strong><br />Every trick of his would end up as good thing for human but instead he would have been punished for that, thus he is a prime god with deformities, he has elephant head, with one tusk and pot belly and is short and stout. He is a evergreen bachelor and a virgin god. <br /><br /><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY: </strong><br />John Gray's "Woman - you cant live with them, you cant live without them" is so true right? <br /><br />Greek gods decided to send the first woman Pandora with a box to avenge their vengeance. <br />Indian gods ripped this guy of his good looks and made him totally repulsive to woman and forever bachelor. <br /><br />"I have body of a god, but unfortunately Buddha - should actually be Ganesha"<br /><br />------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4869492821984720&pid=1.7&w=193&h=143&c=7&rs=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4869492821984720&pid=1.7&w=193&h=143&c=7&rs=1" style="height: 143px;" /></a></div>On side note, I am going on vacation and I maynt be able to catch up with regular posts of yours or comment on those, will check in between, sorry about that. <br /><br />If you havent watched Prometheus movie yet, watch it, worth the watch. I liked the movie, too many open questions and if I have to predict the future, the sequel is going to be terrible and stupid.<br /><br />The creator/engineer of human with helmet kinda looks like Lord Ganesha with trunk- proboscis and has of an elephant just like Ganesh :)</div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-385743718810644132012-07-09T03:30:00.000-07:002021-02-01T13:24:25.723-08:00Tithonus and Bhishmar - Senile peter pans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong>Greek mythology: Tithonus</strong><br />Tithonus - Son of King Laomedon and water mymph Strymo.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://reflectionandchoice.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lagrenee_louis-jean-francois-auroras_take_off.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-951 alignright" height="168" src="http://reflectionandchoice.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lagrenee_louis-jean-francois-auroras_take_off.jpg?w=240&h=168" title="Eos.Tithonus" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://reflectionandchoice.org/2012/09/08/eos-tithonus-and-the-elderly/">Image source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><strong>Lust of Eos: </strong><br />Eos the amorous biracial - greek titaness and goddess of Dawn fell in love with this guy. Her fling with Ares caused her to be cursed with unratifiable sexual desire. Courteous the jealous Aphrodite.<br /><strong>Chase:</strong><br />So, she kidnapped him and added him to list of her male-concubines. <br /><strong>Gift and the curse:</strong><br />She asked Zeus to make him immortal and Zeus granted her wish but she forgot to ask for eternal youth. And yes Zeus granted the gift of immortality with curse of not granting eternal youth. <br /><strong>Senile life:</strong><br />So, he lived forever, wrinkled. He babbled forever. <br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Hindu mythology: Bhismar</strong><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://srikrishnaradha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bhisma-291x300.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5761" height="300" src="http://srikrishnaradha.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bhisma-291x300.jpg" title="bhisma" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://srikrishnaradha.com/bhismastuti-krishna-premi/">Image source</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Bhishmar - Son of King Shantanu and River Ganges<br /><strong>Lust of Shantanu:</strong><br />Shantanu wanted to marry the fisherman's daughter Satyavati. His son Bhisma volunteered to be the matchmaker and approached Satyavati's dad and asked him to marry off his daughter to his dad. Satyavati's dad asked for reverse dowry.<br />Dowry is what father of the bride is supposed to give groom's family. Here the father-of the bride asked for dowry to son of the groom.<br /><strong>Chase:</strong><br />He asked Bhimsa to give up throne, to which Bhisma agreed, and when the dad still hesitated that his kids may claim in future, he took celibacy oath for life, so that no children shall be born to him to claim the throne.<br />Too bad, neither of them knew about IUI and IVF else he would have become virgin-dad.<br /><strong>Gift and the curse:</strong><br />The proud dad Shantanu, yep pleased with his son's pimping skills, offered him a boon that Bhisma would regret forever.<br />He gave his son the gift to live forever with curse of no eternal youth. Bhimsa's boon - he will get to choose the time of his death.<br /><strong>Senile life:</strong><br />In Mahabharatha war, Arjuna his grand-grand-grand-grand son, turned his body to swiss chess by shooting bunch of arrows but he didnt die. <br />This guy had to live and endure the pain and suffering from that and stayed alive in the battlefield till the end of the war.<br /><br /><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY:</strong><br />Immortality without eternal youth is like buying luxury cars without warranty or free service coupons <br /><br />For more comparative mythology stories, go <a href="http://meandmythinkingcap.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20page%20stories">here</a></div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-41153120538314751112012-07-05T03:58:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.683-08:00Teiresias and Illa - Transvestite by accident<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Summer and work both are keeping me busy, so this mythology is my fallback. <br /><br />On another note, G is dad for second time for a gorgeous son. Congrats G! <br /><a href="http://www.bloggerati.org/2012/07/fleetwood.HTML"> http://www.bloggerati.org/2012/07/fleetwood.HTML</a><br /><br /><strong>Greek mythology : Teiresias</strong><br /><a href="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4621007474328627&pid=1.7&w=199&h=150&c=7&rs=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4621007474328627&pid=1.7&w=199&h=150&c=7&rs=1" style="height: 150px;" /></a><strong>Birth:</strong> <br />Teiresias was born as a male child to nymph Chariclo and Everes. <br /><strong>Accident:</strong> <br />He once saw two snakes who were busy at that moment. He hit them with a stick and disrupted the coitus game. <br /><strong>Curse:</strong> <br />Hera the wife of King of gods Zeus wasnt happy so she cursed him to become a woman. <br /><strong>Post-op life :</strong> <br />This guy after becoming a woman married and had children. <br /><strong>Sentence and Parol:</strong><br />And continued his life as a woman for seven years and his curse was undone by another pair of snakes again busy.<br /><br /><strong>Hindu mythology : Ila</strong><br /><br /><div><strong>Birth:</strong><br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfC6xkn-zuUtka0X7mcgbtH24Tyoxwy0tnvpCnZcmRSXmXWrKR" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="228" data-width="176" height="228" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfC6xkn-zuUtka0X7mcgbtH24Tyoxwy0tnvpCnZcmRSXmXWrKR" style="height: 228px; width: 176px;" width="176" /></a>Illa was born as male child Sudyamma to Manu and Shraddha.<br /><strong>Accident:</strong><br />He once stepped into Saravana by mistake, sacred grove of goddess Parvati where Shiva and Parvati get busy and stay busy all the time ie coitus play field.<br /><strong>Curse:</strong><br />This forest was no virgin forest, ie if ever a man was to enter this forest, he would loose his masculinity and become a woman.<br />The spell made sure that nothing was male there - even trees and animals everything shall be transformed to females to ensure that Shiva was the only male around there - monogamy, monopoly whatever.<br /><strong>Post-op life:</strong><br />He Illa(sun god) married Budha(not Buddha)(moon god) and gave birth to Pururavas. <br /><br /><strong>Sentence and Parol:</strong> <br />After heavy pleading, Parvati reduced it to month-month deal. One month as a male and one month as a female. And finally after a horse-sacrifice ie bribing the alpha god Shiva, he was completely restored back to a man.<br /><br /><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY :</strong> <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A wild woman kicked you in the nuts?</li><li> Had too many hormone injected Salmon steaks? </li><li>Love watching Justin Bieber youtube videos?</li></ul>It is not end of the world.</div></div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-43130869673649147342012-03-21T16:16:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.691-08:00Seahorse pregnancies - Ironclub/Samba and Dionysus/Zeus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></div><br /><strong style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="sg_t" height="146px" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4556866296611426&id=4b07cf54a3e9289e76cabf93b79c0f13&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.users.globalnet.co.uk%2f%7eloxias%2fimages%2fbirth-of-dionysus.jpg" style="height: 146px; left: 0px; top: 6px; width: 160px;" width="160px" /></strong><br /><strong>Dionysus/Zeus : </strong>Son of mortal mom Semele and godly god Zeus. When Semele came to know that she got knocked up a divine playboy she asked him to reveal his true form, when he did, she couldnt handle the truth and perished in ensuing blaze form of Zeus.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Zeus rescued the fetal Dionysus by sewing him into his thigh. A few months later, Dionysus was born.</div>Yep, Zeus popped out Dionysus not from his whispering-eye but a little down ie from his thigh.<br />Dionysus was carried by papa in his thigh instead of momma's womb (Semele and Zeus)<br /><br /><strong>Iron rod/Shamba :</strong> (Imagine the bald badguy in Bruce Almighty who pops not pops out,but shits out a monkey?)<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4866675187122591&id=ec4eb12e5084c8cfa8cb6790e818af41&url=http%3a%2f%2fsrimadbhagavatam.org%2fimages%2fkrishna%2f11.1yaducurse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="sg_t" height="177px" src="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4866675187122591&id=ec4eb12e5084c8cfa8cb6790e818af41&url=http%3a%2f%2fsrimadbhagavatam.org%2fimages%2fkrishna%2f11.1yaducurse.jpg" style="height: 177px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 250px;" width="250px" /></a>Let say he was stupid pranker like Dharun Ravi who had to be pay heavy undeserving prize for that.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prank gone wild - His cousins dressed him up as a pregnant woman and placed him in front of a sage and asked him.</div>"What baby this woman is going to popout? boy or girl"<br />The sage got angry for he knew that it was Samba son of Lord Krishna (could have jumped off a bridge nearby) instead cursed below.<br />"This man dressed up as a woman will give birth to a ironrod(oolakkai - ancient tool used to crush millet into flour) and that would cause your family/lineage/hereditary's demise.<br /><br />And Samba went through whole process and gave birth to iron club. The scared cousins crushed the club into power threw them at river. Newton's law - energy can be neither created nor destroyed.<br /><br />The remains of ironclub piece nourished grass meadow near the river and sometime later the cousins and everyone in the family used that grass as sword to fight against each other and killed themselves.<br /><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white;">Moral of the story:</span></strong><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">1.People with anger/hatred issues should not be given power to do anything forget cursing or jury duty. </span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">(They should attend anger management sessions.)</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">2.For all Egyptian children, daddy becomes a mummy only after death but only for Dionysus his daddy became a mommy right after his birth.</span><br /><br /><br /></div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-50241782136837724832012-03-20T08:28:00.000-07:002019-06-10T12:53:49.904-07:00Venom and the wives - Shiva/Parvati and Loki/Sigyn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Loki and Sigyn :</strong> <br />
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<strong>Some of his allegations:</strong><br />
1. Tricking Hoor to kill Baldr.<br />
2. Accomplice in the kidnap of Idun and her apples.<br />
3. Stirring fights between gods.<br />
<strong>Some of his service to Asgard:</strong><br />
1. He tricked the giant to build the wall and screwed him from getting his payment.<br />
2. He tricked the dwarfs to create priceless possessions for the Asgard gods.<br />
3. He did bring Idun back.<br />
<strong>Sentence:</strong><br />
The gods turned one of his sons Vali to wolf and made him tear apart the other son Narfi.<br />
Then used the guts of the dead son to tie up Loki to three stones. <br />
A poison spilling serpent was tied right above Loki's head and it was dripping venom alltime. <br />
<strong>Wifey:</strong> (too bad she doesnt even get more than 2 mention in the whole mythology)<br />
The faithful wife Sigyn sat next to Loki and was capturing the venom in a bowl. <br />
<strong>Earthquake and Loki:</strong><br />
During every interval ie the short while whenever she tries to empty the bowl, the serpent's dripping venom caused so much pain to Loki. And his writhe in pain results as earthquake as per Norse mythology.<br />
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<strong>Shiva and Parvati :<br />Butter recipe:</strong><br />
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How do you churn the buttermilk to get butter? <br />
<strong>You need:</strong><br />
Rope - The serpent Vasuki was used as the rope. <br />
Pole - The mountain Mandara is the pole, since ocean is very deep to keep it from sinking you also need a float.<br />
Float - Lord krishna took avatar of turtle which mounted the mountain and held it from immersing.<br />
Hands - Instead of two hands to churn the rope at both sides, one side had Asuras(giants) at head and other side Devas(demigods) at the tail.<br />
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Buttermilk - here the ocean or the milky way is the buttermilk.<br />
<strong>Method:</strong><br />
1. You twirl or churn the rope - The tug of war kind of motion between asuras and devas mimicked the churning process.<br />
2. First you will get just the froth and foam. Discard the foam - Here instead of froth first they got poison "Halahala"<br />
3. Then you will get cream, butter and stuff. They did get Lakshmi, Kamadenu, Divine horse etc., around 9 items - priceless possessions.</div>
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The poison "halahala" was too hot and too fierce it disrupted the churning process. <br />
There was no place to throw the poison out. So the chief god of all, Lord Shiva offered to drink the poison and he did. <br />
<strong>Wifey:</strong><br />
He was turning blue as a result of the poison, unable to bear this sight, the wife Parvati rushed and held his throat tight and prevented the poison from getting swallowed completely. The poison stuck in Shiva's throat forever. <br />
<strong>Adam's apple and Shiva:</strong><br />
The stuck poison in throat remained as Adam's apple in men as per Hindu mythology and the deep voice.</div>
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mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-18324353462658881262012-03-19T05:20:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.707-08:00Peeping toms and their curse - Anushya/Trinity and Athena/Teiresias<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></div><br /><br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="sg_t" height="164" src="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4896735655561011&id=d6e2db4dc336dbd49d05c04462a3ec50&url=http%3a%2f%2fmon.bateau.pagesperso-orange.fr%2fimages%2fmythologie%2ftiresias2.jpg" style="height: 164px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 181px;" width="181" /></div><br /><strong>Teiresias and Athena</strong><br />Teiresias is son of Shepherd Everes and mymph Chariclo.<br />You cant use English introduction here - Gentleman's gentleman because these peeping toms like Teiresias cant be introduced so. He saw what he wasnt supposed to see. A virgin when she is naked.<br /><strong>Bathing of Pallas:</strong><br />When Athena was taking bath, Teiresias stumbled on the sight and never took his eyes off neither did he blink, the enraged Athena the virgin greek goddess with greek goddess body took off his eye sight and cursed him to go blind.<br /><strong>Curse:</strong><br />Athena cursed him to become visually handicapped.<br /><strong>Momma Chariclo:</strong><br />Whether abode in basement or when you are in deep attitude of abasement, there is always mommy for the rescue. <br />Nymph mommy Chariclo cried her hearts out to Athena to restore her son's sight, but Athena said it was too late.<br /><strong>Restitution:</strong><br />Instead she offered to give him clean clear ears - audibility. He was able to hear and understand birdsong and got the gift of prophecy.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Trinity and Anushya</strong><br />Anushya is wife of Atri. She is renowned as one of pathivirathas(the whole cooking, cleaning, and burning in fire to prove chastity kinda wife).<br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_DZ-RSQL09M-MqtF6NBPXDLs7CE-dI0O5fhtEIDvbudwsT5TS7Q" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi" data-height="173" data-width="292" height="173" id="rg_hi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_DZ-RSQL09M-MqtF6NBPXDLs7CE-dI0O5fhtEIDvbudwsT5TS7Q" style="height: 173px; width: 292px;" width="292" /></a>Narada- the stirrer of trouble, Indian version of Loki made wives of Alphagods(trinity) Shiva,Brahma and Vishnu jealous by overpraising her chastity. The jealous wives asked trinity to make a visit to her abode and test her chastity.<br /><strong>Trinity visit:</strong><br />As said before, as per Hinduism, you are never supposed to deny the wishes of panhandler brahmin. The trinity disguised themselves as Brahmins and asked Anushya to serve them in nude.<br />Convinently the husband Atri was away.<br /><strong>Curse:</strong><br />Here whether it is a curse or a trick, she used her power of chastity and turned them to babies and served them milk in the nude thereby not accumulating the brahmin curse and yet taking revenge for their dirty thoughts.<br /><strong>Trinity Wives:</strong><br />I dont know whether greeks are momma-boys arent, Indian men sure move from their momma's boobs straight to their wife's boobs for sure.<br />So,instead of the mommies, the wives made the trip down to earth and asked her to release their husbands from their babyhood.<br /><strong>Restitution:</strong><br />She released them. She asked trinity to be born as her kids and they granted her wish.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Moral of the story :</strong> <br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">1.Diamond cuts diamond. One woman's curse can be cleared only by using another woman.</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">2.If you are unmarried, "momma to the rescue" and if you are married, "wifey to the rescue".</span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">( Doesnt matter what you are charged with, it could be as humiliating as "peeping", "begging", "asking for nude service", have momma/wifey on speed-dial )</span> <br />___________________________</div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-63639639469663815582012-03-15T08:57:00.000-07:002019-06-10T12:56:14.623-07:00Eagles snatching the immortality elixir - Pjazi/Idun and Garuda/Amirtha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pjazi(eagle) kidnapped Loki when he tried to choo away the eagle and to release him from that Loki made a deal with Pjazi-eagle.</div>
<strong>Deal:</strong><br />
Loki was to lure Idun-possessor of immortality secret - apples, out of Asgard.<br />
<strong>Mission:</strong><br />
Loki lured her out by saying that he found similar apples and wanted her to appraise or authenticate by comparing with those of hers - The apples of immortality.The secret of norse god's everlasting youth was Idun and her apples.<br />
When she came out, Pjazi came again in eagle form and kidnapped Idun and as well as her apples.<br />
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When other gods realised Loki's involvement in disappearance of Idun, they forced him to retrieve her back. He took the form of a falcon and flew to Pjazi's place and turned Idun to a nut and brought her back to Asgard.<br />
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<strong>Garuda and Amirtha</strong><br />
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Garuda(eagle) had to release his mommy from the servitude from her sister and his cousin-brother serpents.<br />
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In order to achieve that he had to steal immortality nectar Amritha from heaven.</div>
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He placed Amritha on the ground to the serpents thereby fulfilling his end of bargain to release his mommy, and advised them to take bath before consuming the immortality nectar. When they left Indra snatched the nectar back<br />
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The serpents came back from their ablutions and saw the elixir gone but with small droplets of it on the grass. They tried to lick the droplets and thereby split their tongues in two. From then onwards, serpents have split tongues and shed their skin as a kind of immortality.</div>
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mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-71279120707280478042012-03-13T17:18:00.000-07:002019-06-10T13:01:55.126-07:00Lembas bread - AkshayaPatra/Pandhavas and Mjollnir/Thor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Remember Lords of the rings, Waybread or Lembas bread made by Elves? Any grown man can eat not more than 4 max? And the bread never runs out?<br />
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And after meal and a heavy nap he will put the bones and hide together and hit the hide with his hammer the next morning and the goats will resurrect to life without any reminiscence of the mishap. <br />
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The catch is, you arent supposed to eat the hide or the bones. You can eat only the meat. You cant break the bones as well.<br />
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Thor even got two servants Roskava and Pjalfi for life as out of court settlement when Pjalfi broke the bone to suck the marrow during its role as dinner which left the goat's leg lame after rebirth.<br />
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It was a wonderful vessel given to Yudhishthira by the Lord Surya, which held a never-failing supply of food to the Pandavas every day. <br />
During their exile period, Draupati the single wife of five brothers will cook food in that vessel and it could serve any number of people. <br />
As per mythology any Kshatriya isnt supposed to send any person with empty stomach and all hermits and sages should thrive on panhandling. <br />
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After Draupati finished her meal and it is washed and turned down for drying it cant revive food after sundown, only the next morning it can start it's inexhaustible meal process.<br />
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Once, couple of sages were sent to Draupati's abode past her meal time,she felt helpless because she didnt want to accumulate the wrath of the sages by denying them dinner. <br />
When they left to take bath for their meal, Lord Krishna came down to save Draupati and he picked the left out single grain from the vessel(Draupati didnt wash it properly) and said "I am good" and that filled his stomach and the entire world's hunger and thereby the sages were no longer hungry and they left without their meal and Pandhavas didnt have to accumulate the wrath.<br />
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<strong>Moral of the story :</strong> <br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">1.If you cant cook or clean, cook a story to make it look like it is a good sign. Blame the fate and destiny.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">2. PETA and all newschannels could leave the Trump family and their Africa hunting spree photos and could start the new quest to bring Thor's goats along with his hammer from Asgard to Earth.</span><br />
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There are lot of old-wives tales like this in India for women to escape from their compromised hygiene, compromised cooking etc.,<br />
1. If you happen to find hair in your meal, it means that the bonding between you and your guest is going to last forever.<br />
2. If the food tastes too salty, it means that the cook is horny, you may get lucky with the cook that night.<br />
3. Overflowing milk and rice are good because it may bring prosperity.<br />
4. If your wife eats after you and in same plate as yours without washing, it means that she is very much in love with you, way deep.<br />
5. If you cough during mealtime it means that someone is thinking of you.<br />
6. If you empty the last drop you may marry an attractive spouse.<br />
7. If you spill kumkum,vermilion it is a good sign.<br />
8. Dont pick hairballs of someone else's. If you let them pick then the person to whom the hair belongs to and person who cleaned both may start to fight. To avoid altercation avoid cleaning.<br />
9. Men arent supposed to shave or cut their hair, if their wife is pregnant. [This I think is tit for tat. Maybe to make them look less attractive during the unattractive period of knocked up wives]<br />
10. Dont dressup or comb hair after sunset. [maybe due to limited visibility or maybe due to practice of Indian Geishas-Dasis who dress up during night time alone for their orgies]<br />
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Some of the English excuses I know <br />
1. If girls eat the crumbs then she may have chest hair once she grows up. <br />
2. Keeping weddingcake under the pillow to get vision of future husband? [I think again is excuse for all lazy obese ladies obessed with cake and wedding]</div>
mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-69381945723973924902012-03-12T17:44:00.000-07:002014-02-18T19:38:55.736-08:00Kill your parent, love-other parent - Parasuram/Renuka and Cronus/Uranus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="301" src="http://blog.bojanadimitrovski.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/uran_vs_cron.jpg" width="320" /></div><strong>Uranus/Gaea/Cronus - Dada asking to kill momma to son</strong></div>Cronus is the youngest son of Uranus(Sky) and Gaia(Earth).<br /><span lang="EN">They did have other hideous looking kids like Cyclops and Hecatoncheires.</span><br /><span lang="EN"> Uranus hid them in Tartarus,inside Gaia which caused her lot of pain. </span><br /><span lang="EN">And on top of all this, she was getting tired of knocked up game. </span><br /><span lang="EN"><strong>Uranus wasnt a seahorse or wasnt ready to borrow the pregancy.</strong> <br />So, in order to take revenge she asked her kids to kill their dad and free her from this non-stop marathon in bed - to make babies followed by popping out those. </span><br /><br /><span lang="EN"><strong>Again we are talking about pre-Epidural, pre-spinal, pre-c-section period.</strong></span><span lang="EN"><br />The older sons Titan, Lapetus were not ready to take that offer. </span><br /><span lang="EN"><strong>But the youngest Cronus did and Gaia gave him a sickle and laid a trap for Uranus. </strong><br />When he came near her, Cronus ambushed him and chopped off his genitals and threw them at sea. From his semen many more kids were born. </span><br /><span lang="EN"><br /><strong><em> <span style="background-color: orange;">Here, Mama said "Hurt your daddy" and the son chopped off his dad's privates with the sickle his mama gave him.</span></em></strong><br /><br /><strong>Jamadagni/Renuka/Parasuram - Dada said kill your mommy and also siblings</strong><br /><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img align="left" alt="" border="0" hspace="1" src="http://www.devshoppe.com/images/graphics/parashurama11devshoppe.jpg" vspace="1" width="150" /></a>Parasuram is the youngest son of Renuka and Jamadagni. <br />One day she was to fetch some water for her hubby's ritual, and accidentally she watched one of demigods in action with his wives. <br /><strong>You cant blame the woman, this happened during pre-porn or porn-free, vibrator-free period, she lost track of time.</strong> <br />The enraged hubby who came to know about this by clairvoyance considered it as infidelity and called for his sons. <br />See, men during that period too never tried to get viagra or anything, instead blamed the wife for infidelity.<br />He asked his kids to chop their mom's head off. <br />The older kids refused to kill. <br />Just then his last son Parasuram came back from one of his quest. <br /><strong> Jamadagni just told him to chop off his mom's head and also his brothers.</strong><br />Parasuram didnt hesitate and chopped all of their heads. <br /><strong><em><span style="background-color: orange;">Here Dada said "Kill your mommy" and the son chooped off his mama's head with his axe.</span></em></strong><br /><br />(Gaea could have switched places with Renuka but see these Greek woman I dont know maybe due to male-female ratio? like this Gaia she is actually the mom of Uranus and then she became his wife and gave birth to Cronus and Rhea and many. And her son Cronus married her daughter ie his sister Rhea- twisted and this never stopped till Roman Caesar and Greek Cleopatra)<br /><br /><strong>Moral of the story:</strong> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Never bring kids into parent's fight. Parasuram never got married and became a serial killer and his quest all through his life was to kill the men of royality (Kshatriyas). Cronus married his sister Rhea and never trusted his kids and swallowed all his children right after they were born.</span></span></div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-41376531065657037682012-03-10T07:13:00.000-08:002014-02-18T19:38:55.746-08:00Tribute to the service - Stripes on Squirrel's back and Eyes on Peacock's feathers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="sg_t" height="201" src="http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4998096877781445&id=9bb6f120dd7c273e37c02216b07cc53f&index=newexp&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.eyes-of-argus.com%2fGeneral-Images%2fArgus2.gif" style="height: 179px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 250px;" width="280" /><span lang="EN"></span></div><strong>Argus and Hera</strong><br /><span lang="EN">Zeus was married to Hera, and he had many concubines. Zeus turned Io-one of his concubines into a bovine and gifted her as cow to Hera. </span><br /><span lang="EN"><strong>The suspicous Hera appointed Argus as her private-eye to keep an eye on her cheating husband and the mistress cow.</strong> </span><br /><span lang="EN">Lucky for him he had 100 eyes. But Zeus unable to withstand anguish sent Hermes the messenger to shoot the guard. </span><br />Hermes wasnt as good as my physics teacher who can put 100 students with her monologue to sleep u in 10 mins, This guy after painful process of music and monologue succeeded in putting 100 eyes of Argus to sleep. Too bad he didnt have Adam Sandler's movies.<br />The tale of Pan and Syrinx finally lulled Argus to sleep. Once the hundredth eye had shut, Hermes struck, killing Argus in his slumber.<br /><br /><strong><em>In tribute to her trusted watchman, Hera took the eyes of Argus and set them to the tail of her favorite bird, the peacock and not on peahen.</em></strong> <br />And who is the donor of coconut's three eyes, I dont know. And Hera didnt she know that the cyclops had only one-eye, if at all she wanted to donot Argus's 100 eyes, why werent cyclops considered?<br /><br /><strong>Squirrel and Rama</strong><br />In Ramayana, to resuce his kidnapped wife Sita from Lankan King Ravana, Rama had to cross the ocean to Srilanka from India. <br /><a href="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4626779768817226&id=0946aa75c8811b251cec8f7e380cdf78&index=newexp&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.indianetzone.com%2fphotos_gallery%2f20%2fsquirrel_15777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="sg_t" height="198" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=4626779768817226&id=0946aa75c8811b251cec8f7e380cdf78&index=newexp&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.indianetzone.com%2fphotos_gallery%2f20%2fsquirrel_15777.jpg" style="height: 198px; left: 9px; top: 0px; width: 143px;" width="143" /></a>With the help of monkeys and god of sea Varunan, he built Adam's bridge using all stones and trees and sand. <br />The Indian squirrel wanted to help out, so he rolled his back on beach sand and then ran off to the bridge and then twitched,waggled,wiggled hard to transfer the sand to the bridge.<br />It is the thought that counts. <br /><strong><em>So the pleased Rama, patted him on his back, maybe he patted too much because,his fingers left- not exactly fossiled but left an impression of his three of his fingers (index,middle,ring).</em></strong> <br />That also resembled the other type of dothead- symbol of hinduism identity Srinamam on Indian palm squirrels back. <br /><br /><strong>Moral of the story:</strong> <span style="background-color: yellow;">Poor squirrel he didnt even get peanuts for his service, all he got was, a heavy pat on his back, that should explain why they say that HELL is where you have "Indian salary"</span><br /><br />And to read another common story between the Greek Argus's 100 eyes and Indian demigod Indra's 1000 eyes from 1000 whispering-eyes, click <a href="http://meandmythinkingcap.blogspot.com/2011/08/alcmene-and-ahalya-victims-of.html">here</a>.</div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-5225286589304893842012-03-09T07:11:00.000-08:002019-06-10T13:09:39.225-07:00Missed entry in the list : Mistletoe/Baldr and Human/Ravana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Mistletoe and Baldr:</strong><br />
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Baldr- the handsome had been having nightmares. And he tried to his mommy Frigga.<br />
<strong><em>And as any mommy, his mommy listed out everything that could harm her son and asked for oath that no one and no thing shall harm her son.</em></strong> <br />
She being the ultimate mommy and wife of Odin and all, everything accepted and took the oath. <br />
<strong><em>She felt that mistletoe was too young and fragile and didnt ask for mistletoe's oath. </em></strong><br />
He is told to be the most handsome of all. <br />
<strong><em>Having acquired this boon, all the gods were using him like guinea pig to test the boon by shooting and trying all ways to kill him but he remained unharmed.</em></strong><br />
The mischevous and jealous Loki tricked Frigg to spill this loophole and used the blind brother Hoor, to shoot mistletoe at him and Baldr-only birth son of Frigga, fell head.<br />
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<strong>Human and Ravana:</strong><br />
Ravana is the King of Sri Lanka former Ceylon. <br />
He wanted to become an immortal emperor. He performed an intense penance to Lord Brahma. <br />
He kept chopping his head off as part of penance but like Hydra it kept growing but not in multiples just one for one.<br />
At last, Lord Brahma, pleased with his austerity, appeared after his 10th decapitation and offered him a boon. <br />
Since immortality was no longer in store, Ravana was given choice to pick anything other than immortality.<br />
<strong><em>Ravana listed everyone -gods, heavenly spirits,demi-gods,monsters, serpents, beasts, every single thing and gave the list to Brahma and asked him to grant him the oath that he shall not be killed by anyone or anything in that list.</em></strong><br />
To Brahma this seemed easier than immortality, so he said "Wish granted".<br />
<strong><em>Mortal men didnt seem to be a threat and he didnt include that. </em></strong><br />
Usually in hindu mythology after acquiring the boons these booned souls start to behave like goons and start to do unspeakable things. <br />
Ravana did the same and in order to vanquish him, Lord Vishnu takes avatar of Rama(Human avatar) and killed him.<br />
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<strong>Moral of the story:</strong> If death is inevitable better enjoy and go for it. Why to hurt and trouble yourself to do the penance and get the boon and later get killed by trick and get into history with a bad title or as a bad guy. Live life of king size.</div>
mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7184794829207872027.post-53662220351677657122012-03-07T20:49:00.000-08:002014-02-18T19:38:55.762-08:00Abandoned wooden chest on waters: Sun-Karnan and Zeus-Perseus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="320" src="http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/45/4513/3S9BG00Z/art-print/baby-perseus-rescued.jpg" width="240" /></div><strong>Zeus-Danae-Perseus</strong><br />Danae was imprisoned as a spinster by her daddy King Acrisius fearing the prophecy he heard from the oracle that his demise laid in hands of his daughther's son ie his grandson. The playboy King of Gods- Zeus came to her as gold shower and impregnated her.<br />After birth Acrisius, put his grandson as well as his daughter in a wooden chest and let it sail on Sea. <br />The chest was later found by a <strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">fisherman</span></strong>, who raised Perseus as his own son. <br />Perseus had his dad Zeus help him out, by getting him Adamantine sword, Hersus winged sandals, Hades's helm of darkness and Athena's shield, robot owl etc., through intimidation and bribery.,<br />Perseus leads a undeserving life like under par warrior and gets his way with Dad's dough. Which he manages to loose or discard after end of every quest.<br /><strong><em>Dummy guy given a hero status for no reason.</em></strong> <br /><strong>Sun-Kunthi-Karnan:</strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinAM-nEtGEvkIj8TrBh5kr036FyyuLNtyidRiyFUKLq_GH0LoHH4Y6bs5ZO_mTL2U8leOM8XV0seiSp2zP7TBk0z4GhQogqo_YJmeLneZGRW6i7aAoxyiqx5tN3xCcdEAalCG9CGMKf8/s1600/karna-DC71_a_03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinAM-nEtGEvkIj8TrBh5kr036FyyuLNtyidRiyFUKLq_GH0LoHH4Y6bs5ZO_mTL2U8leOM8XV0seiSp2zP7TBk0z4GhQogqo_YJmeLneZGRW6i7aAoxyiqx5tN3xCcdEAalCG9CGMKf8/s1600/karna-DC71_a_03.jpg" width="300" /></a>Kunti during her spinster days, had to serve a powerful hermit and after end of service, the sage offered her a boon which was, she could call upon any god of her choice, and receive a child through him. She wanted to test it out and called Surya- The Sun. <br />The Sun gave her a son.<br />She being unmarried couldn't afford to raise the baby, instead she put her baby inside a chest and let it sail on River Ganges.<br />The chest was later found by a <span style="background-color: yellow;">charioteer</span> and they raised Karnan as their own son. <br />And he grew up to be the most famous warrior of all times.<br />He being god of Sun, was born with jewels attached to his body and inherited all top qualities like mighty warrior, great personality, good looks, charity oriented, and kind and gracious from his dad - The Sun.<br />Karnan leads a cursed life and is denied many things just because of being a foster son of a charioteer.<br /><strong><em>Right hero wronged as a villain. </em></strong><br /><br /><strong>Moral of the story:</strong> This should go to Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you happen to father a kid, better to raise him far far away not necessarily put him on a chest and let him sail on waters. But can provide child support under a proxy like the above Sun or Zeus.<br /><br />For more comparison mythology stories go <a href="http://meandmythinkingcap.blogspot.com/search/label/one%20page%20stories">here</a></div>mamtchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695425892749695527noreply@blogger.com