As the Story Will Tell Itself: To Become the Mouth Which Holds the Universe

The explanation of why the cow is revered so much by the Hindus makes sense. Cows provide milk which provides sustenance, but one may easily forget the usefulness of their hides and bones. I think Vishnu's promise that humans will stop over-exploiting the earth-cow was broken. Humans seem to be exploiting and destroying the earth at an alarming rate more so now than ever. So Lakshmi does have a sister, Alakshmi. I encountered her not too long ago in this week's reading ( Krishna Krishna ) but under the name of Moodevi. Remember that she is misfortune. I may have never connected that the continuous growth of Matsya and the eventual destruction of the world be the result of too much kindness and no boundaries. Is Vaman the incarnation of Vishnu that is thought to be Buddha? The picture looks like Buddha to me, but it may not be. Okay, but the killing of someone for being attracted to somebody else is terrible. Even if a God did this act, it does not make it right. I would s...

Bhama crept through the shadows. She was currently tailing her uncle, Prasenajit, while he was traveling to another country. Recently her father, Satrajit, claimed that he had acquired a jewel known as the Syamantaka from the Sun God that would give him fifty measures of gold per day. Bhama did not doubt the power of this jewel, but she did doubt her father's story of its origin. She knew he must have stolen it at some point while he had gone to visit those aboriginal people in the forest. Her uncle borrowed it because it also has the power to protect its holder from the dangers of the forest. She followed him now in hopes to recover it and return the jewel to its rightful owners. Suddenly a lion burst out from the brush in front of Prasenajit. He squealed in terror. "B-b-back y-you b-b-beast!" he yelled. He thrust the jewel out in front of him in the direction of the lion. It snarled and prowled around him in a circle. Prasenajit's legs were shaking wildly and unco...

Krishna finds his double, Paundraka. Paundraka says Krishna is his reflection, and Krishna respond it would be funny to fight his own reflection. What one of them did? Like one is in a fun house or something. You can kind of look at the debate and “battle” between Paundraka and Krishna as a debate of religion and logic. Paundraka also seems like a schizophrenic is he believes that he is an incarnation of Vishnu. But as was said, the people around him did encourage him to believe this for one reason or another.  The exchange of youth for old age sounds like vampirism. But I have already used vampirism in a story. I guess this could be twist for Yayati could be like he has to feed on others as a vampire that rapidly ages physically because he was not faithful to his wife, and the only way to undo this curse would be to feed on one of his sons (i. e. an exchange of old age for youth). The sons could either just refuse or even kill him. There are five circumstances under...

An interesting contraption: A bow sitting on a pedestal a fish-like contraption on the ceiling that always rotated and created an image of a fish in a pond below What kept it rotating? Was it wind, the motion of the earth, or even electricity? I like the image of Arjuna during the swayamvara: a "handsome beard", and "hair flowing down his shoulders". That is my kind of man. Have I tried applying my computer knowledge to my storytelling? How would I even do that in a subject like this? Did I choose the wrong reading if I really wanted to do that? Who are Jatilaa and Prachetasa? I admire them for having multiple husbands. What if Draupadi and the Pandavas were gender-bent? Note that Krishna repeats that Draupadi is born of fire, a righteous one. There are occasionally examples of diction that relate to this. Going back to the loss of the gambling game, what if Krishna had given Draupadi the power to unleash the strength of the fire from which she was bor...