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

Somewhere there was a river where a mermaid named Satyavati reside d . She was born to a fish who caught the seed of a passing gandharva as it was looking up. Because she inherited her mother's tail instead of her father's legs, Satyavati was trapped in the river and had to find ways to lessen her boredom. Initially, she took to watching and listening to the people on the banks and crossing the river while hidden from a distance. One day the mermaid noticed some people who were struggling to cross. She wanted to help, but she was still afraid of people. It took her a bit, but she managed to overcome her anxiety and swam over to help them. From that day on, Satyavati took to ferrying people across the river. This did wonders to alleviate the mermaid's boredom, and she learned ever so much about the world beyond water. Then there came the fateful day when the rishi named Parashara appeared. He asked to be ferried across the river, and like she did to all of the others, sh...

It is so easy to forget who everyone is. There are so many names. It is also easy to forget that Dhritarashta is blind. How quickly did they manage to build their city of Indraprastha (Khandavaprastha)?? Write a sitcom about five brothers sharing a wife under one household getting voted "off the island" for thinking about her or intruding upon the current brother  Tell a story about 5 suitors. A lady cannot choose just one of them, so she chooses all of them. They are all like "Whaaaaaaa..?", and then they are okay with it. Is "bathing in holy waters" this time and place's equivalent of "taking a cold shower"? For twelve years at that? Tell a story of Draupadi's experience being married to five men Burning a whole forest to feed the animals killed in the fire to Agni? That is so cruel and strange. Why was the architect in or near the fire? Imagine the optical illusions not as wonders but instead as horrors like th...

Consider a story about Ganga and the drowning of 7 children - but how to transform such a story? Satyavati (lady who originally smelled like fish): turn her into a mermaid make her top half human, bottom half fish (or vice versa for comedic effect) retell "love" story between her and sage Kunthi has a pretty great power to be honest... Okay, but I do not think that rolling over causing an earthquake comes from strength; that just sounds like a heavy baby. Unless it was caused the force the initiates the roll... Is Kunthi actually enjoying this experience? It feels like she is being forced to pump out extraordinary kids for her husband. I know that is the attitude of the time, but it still seems unreasonable. There is no way Gandhari as a whole would remain intact, let alone be healthy, after bearing a hundred sons... Geez... It just hurts to think about. What if the hundred sons were combined into one person with the strength and skills of a hundred people? ...

There Sita sat beneath the ashok tree in Ashok Vatika. Earlier Sita had witnessed her dear husband fighting the terrible Ravana. Now the sounds of war outside the garden walls began to grow faint. Oh, joyous day , thought Sita, has my beloved Rama defeated that monster? The garden gates creaked open. Sita held her breath. In strode Rama, unscathed and all the more glorious from battle. Her heart leapt from her chest. She began to cry tears of joy. "Oh, Rama!" she cried. Sita got up and approached him with as much dignity as her happiness would allow. However, as she came closer, she noticed his demeanor. He had a frown on his face, a cold look in his eyes. This stopped Sita in her tracks. "My lord and love, why do you appear this way? The day is won. You have achieved all that you had set out to do. There is no reason to be so... this." Rama looked at Sita. His eyes pierced her like icy arrows into her soul and freezing her heart. "You are correct. I have...

"Dumpsville": that is harsh, man... Once again, the introduction animation sequence is pretty amazing! It is actually super trippy and cool! Rama kicks her out while she is pregnant?? He is really lucky about all the unrealisticness and deus ex-machina about his story because what he puts her through would not be good for their future children And if she proved her purity already, then he has no reason to suspect if she is not pregnant with his children! How do his subjects not know about her trial by fire? Why does watching or hearing someone else beat his wife (no matter if she was with another man) make him feel he must banish Sita? (And why let that man keep beating his wife? I know it is a different time, but still...) Even though it may have been part of the times, but Rama is a cold-hearted husband when he chooses to be And oh, man, that song "praising" Rama makes him look all the more like a jerk A dark, dark story of Rama being an abusive, gas...

The introduction animation and style are amazing... Everyone and everything are so shiny... Why are there clips of an American couple? Are they in some way supposed to mirror Rama's and Sita's relationship? Dasaratha tells his son to go away in a far less elaborate and personal way in this version.... Goofy-looking and -acting rakshasa Happy-go-lucky section of Sita and Rama leaving and going into the forest [Insert cheesy pun about how Rama shot a love arrow straight through Sita's heart] Also why is Rama depicted blue in everything? Is that some mark of divinity or just a way to set him apart from everyone else in artwork? Ravana was apparently a good king for some time? intelligent, talented, and a war master explore writing a story about how he became corrupted lotus, Lotus, LOTUS!  With all of the depictions of gods and people having multiple heads... Do they all share the same mind, or do they each have their own personality? if writing ab...

Link to my Storybook web page here . Please feel free to leave your comments and feedback here. Any and all are appreciated. Here is a link to the playlist that will contain all of the music used in the my storybook. The playlist is subject to grow and change as the stories are written and fleshed out. A music tree Web Source: draake thone on Pexels