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- Kunti was a young women who was unmarried and had no children - she worked for a guru and maintained the garden - although scared of her guru, she was kind to him and did everything he asked of her - one day after picking vegetables in the garden, she came into to her guru waiting for her - he told her he was very impressed with her work and wanted to give her a gift - this gift was a spell of some sort that would give her a child with any god she could think of - although she was confused with this gift she thanked him anyway - later when she was at the river, she thought about her gift - she was curious and wanted to see what it was all about - she thought of a god, and he appeared in the sky - he warned her that she must not be foolish with her gift - she told him that she didn’t wish for a child - the god told her he can not take the child back once he was summoned - kunti then had a child, he was beautiful - he had gold armor and earring from his ears - she realiz

Heres a tech tip for my peers, On a Macbook, if you are analyzing lengthy scientific articles and would like to jump to key points, simply hold command + 'f' to produce a search bar. In the search bar, you may type in key-words to jump to them, as well as highlight them, throughout the infinitely long article. Also the commands I use most often and some you might not know is the highlight, copy and paste options. Highlight= command + A ( 'a' stands for all) Copy= command + c Paste= command + v

For my final story for this class, I wanted to share a story about the myth of Arachne. I've recently been reading a lot of these myths or folklore stories and I actually really enjoy them. So I might consider taking Laura's other class that focuses on myths. Ahhhhh... The story of Arachne. We have heard of lots of instances in the mythological world where Gods can transform into other things such as animals or another life form. This is common within their world and most of the time provides them an advantage. Within that there are still mortals that can undergo contortions but they are often unwanted and cursed upon them. Arachne was a young beautiful lady who had a great talent of weaving the most divine threads. People from her town always come to watch her spin her thread and create glorious pieces of art. She was so good, it almost seemed like the thread was just coming from her fingers. After a while of people always praising her work, she became so prideful and

" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the Earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web."    -Pablo Picasso Do you ever wonder where the first spider came from or where their place in life came to be? Why are these aracnid animals so scary but create such beautiful webs? Today Im sharing notes of the myth of Arachne. -In mythology, we see people being able to change and shapeshift into their other forms at their own say so -This is common in important Gods and their abilities - For many morals, the mutations were often unwanted  - Arachne was the daughter of a tradesmen who spent his days dying cloth the darkest shades of purple - She could spin a weave so good that people came around from all over to watch her hands work - After a while her head got a little big and she made a claim that angered the gods - Arachne refused to see weaving as a gift from the gods  - The Goddess of wisd

- How Lord Ganesha got his elephant head -High up in the mountians lived a boy named Ganesha with his mother Parvati and his dad Shiva -This story is told from Ganeshas point of view -Parvati was making a sculpture of a boy that was made of clay - She thought the sculpture was so cute she decided to bring it to life -this is where Ganesha is thought to come from - His mother was dirty from making the sculpture so she decided to take a bath -she told her son to wait by the door and dont let any strangers in - since he just came into this world, he had not seen his father yet -shiva approached the house as he was playing with a stick in the yard - Shiva is a large blue man and Ganesha felt he needed to do something to stop him from entering the home - he yelled for Shiva to stop and shiva replied with a angry response - He told the boy how powerfull he was, then he chopped his head off with a sword - Parvati came running out to find what shiva had done, she told him who he w

I think one thing I was always frustrated with was the inability to capture things that appeared on your screen, or wanted to show someone what appeared on your screen but didn't know how to do that. One great thing I've learned is how to take a screenshot of your computer screen. All you need to do is press command + shift + 4 and you can drag and select which portion of the screen you'd like to screenshot. This has become very helpful to me in the past few weeks. Easily one of the most useful tech tips.

- The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Orpheus is known as one of the greatest poets and musicians and is very handsome - his bride, Eurydice is a wood nymph - they were deeply in love - When they were about to marry, Eurydice died unexpectedly died from a snake biting her -Orpheus felt so helpless and was overcome with grief - he decided to journey to the land of the dead to save his loved one - As he arrived at the area of the dead, he began to strum his lyre, and it soothed the three-headed dog that guarded the gates - The dog fell asleep as Orpheus peacefully passed them - Chareon who charged people dead souls to let them cross the river, let him cross free of charge - The sound of his music took him  - He entered the palace of Hades and Persephone and began to sing of his love that had been taken away from him too soon - All of hell stood still after he finished singing - they granted his plea on one condition that he must not turn around to see if

Tuesdays & Wednesdays Reading Notes on one page because of their similarities and order if events What is a Myth? - The word myth is not exactly a word that has a solid definition - We have seen people use this as a word that shows something false - That is actually a myth ( insert joke here ) - Here we have a situation where we don't have solid definition of the word tale because it's described in many different ways - Here we usually see it as a story that is not meant to be taken seriously  -significant and staying power are two essential things that myths show that is why they keep the stories going after thousands and years - We see a lot of myths as origin stories where they describe how the world started - we see many cultures have stories of how the world and the people in it came to be and why they exist - this is a vast subject to tackle considering there are science and religion that fight against these myth stories - we believe that these stories w

I used the crash course video and wrote my thoughts over the video. To start, the video mentions that the topics of Mythology are endless; he describes it as mixing a bunch of different ice cream flavors and slapping a name on it. Many myths are very, very, very old, which is why you can hear a lot of myths told in different ways. Stories get changed over time, and events are added, changed, or taken away from the story over time to modernize it. A lot of these myths are not translated in their original form. People are still unsure about the interpretation of these stories or why they exist. Myth has a blurry line with religion, and it hard to separate them because of their variety of stories. In some myth stories, it explains the origins of life or what we call an "origin story." It contains content for why our earth has these instances, such as why the flowers grow, where the sunsets. This is where religion and mythology get confused. I am not religious, so I enjoy thes

Wow! This semester is almost over which seems crazy to me. I feel like this semester really flew by because of how busy I really was. This might be my famous last words for the semester so im going to incorperated everything. When I first started this class, I felt like it was a lot to keep up with and there was a lot of new things to learn which kind of scared me because I thought I was always doing it wrong. I then noticed that there really is no wrong way to blog because of the uniqueness of everyones blog, and every is very different in their own good way. I now have no issue with blogging and I actually learned a lot of important tech tips from this class and a little grammar skills I need to brush up on.I like how everyone is really encouraging about the stories and I create and how I can take pride and publish something I put a lot of time and effort in to. I wish that there were more classed like this where you can show lots of personal interesting details about yourself. I f

-Medusa was hunted by many warriors that wanted the claim of the price of her head. -They were turned to stone by her face -She was only mortal of her four siblings, and was very beautiful -She remain pure for the sake of athena -People came to athenas temple to see medusa and all her beauty -Athena started to notice it and became upset with medusa and became to resent her for her looks -People were taken with medusas beautiful hair -When Medusa was walking along the story, she was confronted by Poseiden, god of the sea. - He liked her because of her beauty but she turned him down many times. -If she wanted to stay in athenas temple she had to stay a virgin -Poseiden was in a fued with athena, and saw Medusa as a possession he could steal from athena. -He was tired of being rejected by Medusa so he decided he would take her by force -Athena gave Medusa no protection, so Poseiden took medusa -Athena ws displeased with Medusa so she turned her once beautiful hair into a head

Long ago, there was a king called Uttanapada, who had two wives, Suniti and Suruchi. Suniti was not a rich woman who often seemed sad, while Suruchi was young, charming, and lived a life of lush and fortune. Suniti had a boy named Dhruva, and Suruchi had a son named Uttama. Uttanapada would always visit Suruchi in her palace but would never think of visiting Suniti. One day, Dhruva reached Suruchi palace, where his father Uttanapada lived. He walked in to see Uttama sitting on his fathers' lap, telling jokes and laughing. Dhruva went to hug his father and sit on his lap like his other child. He ran over and climbed on the couch, and while making his way up, he felt a tight grab on his shoulder. He turned around to see it was Suruchi grabbing hold of him, she said, " Where do you think you're going, Dhruva?" and she yanked him down. He replied he was only trying to sit on his fathers' lap like his other child was doing. Suniti shamed him and said, " you are

-Offerings to Shiva and Vishnu include leaves, food, and many more -Invoking the mind without domesticating nature is the trait of Shiva -Brahma is the opposite -Durga rides her lion and disobeys domestication -Her nose ring shows she is still free, but still domesticated -She is Brahmas defiant daughter -Kanya-Kumari must marry the next day before sunrise to ensure a happy marriage, but Shiva lives far away in the mountains, so he must travel to her through the night -Laws and rules distract from creativity -Durgas has unbound hair which represents lack of domestication -She complains that her husband shiva does not work but her mother tells her that she chose her husband -Her striking image is her yellow skin like tumeric -Her skin color is a cosmetic and also a medicine -Kali is the one who saved Krishna from the evil Kansa, who tried to kill him as a baby -Durga is not only a daughter of one god, she's the goddess of all gods -She is a mixture of all the devas com

-Gias Secret- she is the earth mother -The only way her son culd leave her womb was by casterating his father -Sedna and her father were attacked by a flock of seagulls and her father cast her overboard -he cuts of her fingers and arm when she tries to get back into the boat - she sunk into the ocean -Adya laid three unfertilized eggs -Bramha, Vishnu and shiva were born from three unfertilized eggs - They were the three main gods -Adya cursed bramha and said there would be no temples in his honor -She thought of Vishnu as far too shifty and decided to turn to Shiva -He agreed to be her lover if she gave him her third eye, which she accepted -He used it to release a missle that turned her into ash - The ash came three goddesses, who become the wives of Shiva, Bramha, and Vishnu -This was a time before gender -The males have to compete for the femlae- like in birds where they choose based on the based characteristics -There is always remainder males, every womb is special

In the village of Yumana lived a woman named Yashoda who had received a unique child from the gods. The child, whose name is Krishna, had supernatural powers and was talented beyond any other child in the village. He was placed in Yashodas bed the night Krishna was born to protect him from his enemies. Yashoda thinks that she is the birth mother of Krishna but does not understand where all his power is coming from. Little does Yashoda know that she is raising a gifted avatar. Krishna was just a boy when he started to realize his talents and started using them to stir up trouble. He was always getting yelled at by the villagers to stop his nonsense, and sometimes they would even go as far as returning him to his mother. Yashoda did not know what to do about her son's playful demeanor. Krishna felt as though this was just harmless fun that older people did not understand. One day he decided that he wanted to try a new prank out by stealing butter from female workers and see if th

-Krishna had enemy's before he was ever born that tried to keep him from being born - Kunti gave birth to Indra's son Arjuna, the same day as the birth of Krishna -Kansa was an evil ruler and was told from a boom in the sky that the eight children born from his cousin Devaki and his wife Vasudev would slay him -Kansa was mad and tried to kill his cousin and her husband, but she begged him to spare them - He put them in prison and decided to kill their eight children instead; he later decided to kill all of Devaki's children a total of six -When Devaki was pregnant with her seventh child, a goddess transported the child into the womb of Radhini, Vasuduvs first wife. -Krishna was born, and the child could not be harmed -Vasudev was told by a voice to go the Yamuna -Kansa had a horrible dream about his fate -The little girl Mya turned out to be a form of Durga -Durga told Kasma that his slayer was safe somewhere far away -Yashoda was very confused because she though

The Giant Squid, Google search Once in a large lake lived a giant squid that was larger than a queen-size bed, and its tentacles reached over fifty feet long. He was an unusual squid because he was the only squid in the whole world that could live in freshwater. Although he often felt lonely because there was no other fish in this lake beside him because he just ate them all. He ate everything that came near the lake, which is why he was so large. He ate anything that came to take a sip of water, such as deer, elk, elephants, lions, and many more animals. He ate so many animals he gained a reputation among the animal kingdom. Every animal within a five-mile radius knew of his evil actions and tried to stray away from the lake. The only problem is that this was the single water source for miles. The animals had to put a stop to this, or else they would die of thirst. One day a herd of elephants decided that they needed to band together to put a stop to this giant squid. Mr.

The wise man telling the fate of the wikd horses, blogger - A horse named Chestnut that was mean and bit and kicked all the other horses -A king wanted to buy some horses and so the owner drove down one hundred horses for him to look at - The King was a skinflint and wanted to get something cheap, so he let the groomer know this - the groomer thought it would be a good idea to show him chestnut - The King gave the groomer a gold piece -Chestnut started going crazy and started rearing up and kicking in the herd -He bruised and battered a lot of the other horses -When the king came to look at the horses, he scoffed at all the beat up and broken horses -The groomer tried to tell the king that Chestnut had caused all these issues with the other horses and the King was in denial that one horse could do all of that damage -The King said as a favor he would buy all of the beat up horses at half price -The dealer did not like the idea of this but did not want to offend the ki

The Elephant and the Crab- Blogger - The story of a giant crab starts off with a lake in the mountains that a giant crab lived in -crabs are usually small but this one was bigger than a coffee table and it had very large claws - The crab would sit out at the bay of the water and eat anything that came to the shore to drink water -horses, foxes, deer, elk he would all grab them with his claw and drag them under - The crab grew bigger and bigger, feeding off of all the animals at the lake -The animals grew afraid to drink off the edge of the lake so they decided to not drink from that lake - An elephant wanted to lead a herd of elephants to the lake and watch out for the crab as the other elephants drank. -Two elephants went out the furthest in the lake to watch for the crab -the others cleaned themselves and drank water - After they were done with the lake they walked out and the elephant deepest in the water felt a nip on his leg - the elephant's wife told the crab

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Hey Yall, My updated story is also available on my portfolio  The Birth of Karna Kunti was a young woman who was serving her time to her beloved Guru, spending her days maintaining the garden and minding the animals. She had always done what she was told and had much respect for the Guru she worked for. Kunti did anything to please her master and worked day and night whenever she was needed.  One day the Guru was so pleased with her work, he summoned her to his quarters to discuss her reward. "Kunti, you have been much help around my den, and I would like to reward you with great power," Guru said. "Yes, Guru," Kunti replied." " I have seen you work hard around here to please me, and I feel its only right to reward a gift to my loyal helper... I am going to bless you with a Mantra that you can recite at any time, whatever God you are thinking of while you chant this Mantra will appear and bless you with a child". Kunti thanked the Guru for the gi

-Kunti gave brith to nothing but a lump of flesh -Vyvas broke the lumps into one hundred peices and places they in vases of oil -The sons were demonic - Duryodhana did not like the Pandu sons - His mentor (Shakuni) told him he must destroy them because they were pretenders -The Pandavas ate a trap of food filled with sleeping herbs -He pushed bheem into a lake and he was bitten by snakes - He faught the snakes off and found himself deep into another world -When bheem returned unharmed and did not remember what had happen or how he got there - Under the work of Dronacharya, the Pandavas worked to become warriors -Yudishtir was a great charitier and navigated the reigns -Nakula and Sahadev were great swordsmen -the strongest son, bheem, he was a fighter -Archer, was a great warrior, excelled in archery -Drona wanted vengence againt the faraway kingdom - Arjuna was upset because Drona had taught another boy how to become a great archer -Clavius had asked Drona to be his te

The feedback from people in this class has helped me a lot when I'm unsure of something. The criteria we write about may be hard to interpret and I think several people have helped me with my writing skills and what sounds better. I think it's my favorite part of the class that we give each feedback because I want to know what people think about my work and how I can improve it. I also enjoy giving feedback because I know I enjoy hearing other people's ideas. I think its something I still have room for improvement on. Me this semester

-King Shantanu fell in love with with the River Goddess (Ganga) -The King agreed to do whatever she wanted, and ask her no questions -When they had their first child, she drowned the child -She killed six children of theirs -After Ganga told the king of why she drowned the children, she left him and took his last son he had -Sixteen years later - He saw his son and his wife Ganga -His name was David - Shantanu brought his son back to his kingdom so he could be a king one day -Shantanu fell in love with a fisherman's daughter named Sathyavathi, she refused to marry him - David begged the fisherman and his daughter to change his mind, he even offered to give up the throne to their son. -David took an oath that he would never get married or have any children. Shantanu granted his son Bhishma with the ability to grant his own death - After Shantanu died, he acted as a father to his two half brothers - After one brother had died, he feared for the kingdom so decided his ot

Week eight already? It seems like this class has flown by! I mean this semester... I enjoy this picture of Rama and Sita and how it portrays them. This semester for me has been really busy, starting a new job and moving in the process has made everything a lot harder for me than it normally would have been. I need this review week to catch up on a few things I've been wanting to change of my portfolio. I would like to make it more eye-catching or add some more personal details. I also need this week to catch up on some TLC around my house. I must say I think that this last reading we did was very confusing for me to understand and keep up with characters, It was way more work for me than it should have been just trying to keep the storyline straight. I think I enjoyed our first story more than this second one. I don't think my notes are the best because I'm not used to doing this yet so I haven't mastered a note-taking strategy. I'm hoping that this class wi

Sudhama and Krishna were best friends, Krishna; we met in another story. Sudhama was married to a girl from Bhrama and had many children together. Together they were both penniless and had little help. Sudhama could not work enough to provide for all five of his children. Sudhama's wife wanted him to ask Krishna for food to feed their children, and she said that it was cruel to bring a human into this world and have no food for them. Sudhama did not want to ask his best friend Krishna for a handout, but he knew it was necessary. Sudham reached Krishna's palace but was stopped by the date keeps in a stern voice and threatened to beat him if he did not leave. Krishna saw him from his high balcony and raced down to greet him with a big hug. They walked upstairs, where Sudhama was pampered and treated like a king. Krishna demanded Sudhama hand over what he had brought with him in the bag, which was his blessing of chipped rice. The goddess of Fortune, Rukmini, snatched his had aft

- Arjuna refused to fight Bhishma because of their history - Bhishma is killed for his betrayal -Drona is now in charge of fo Duryodhana's army, and his first goal is to make Yudhishthira his capture. -Arjuna has sworn to protect his brother -Abhimanyu dies in the battlefield, and Arjuna gets his revenge - As the war went into the nightfall, all hell broke loose as men started killing their kin -Arjuna calls for a truce -Ghatotkacha and Karna fought, and Karna came out victorious - The Pandava general decapitated Drona -Bhima kept his word she cut off Duhsassana's head and drank his blood - Arjuna told Karna he could not attack a hurt man, but Karna did not listen - Then the tables turned, and Karna was asking for mercy while mocking Arjunas passed son -Arjuna struck the head off of Karna -Duryodhana intervenes from his place below the water -Ashwatthaman wanted revenge for the death of Drona and tried to kill the Pandavas in their sleep - Draupadi demanded that

- After the Pandava princes were banished they went into the forest with Draupadi -Surya gave Yudhishthira a copper pot filled with food -For 12 years they were send into the forest with their three wives -Krishna visited the princes in the forest -Arjuna gatheres weapons on his own to fight the Duryodhana when their exile is over -Arjuna is the son of Indra - Arjuna killed a boar during his morniing worshing with a bow - The Great God gave Arjuna the divine bow - Indra is the Father of Arjuna -Arjuna stayed wirh Indra for five years while becoming skilled in music and dancing -the Daityas and Danavas ( the demons and giants) are the enemies of Indra, they live b elow the floor of the coean callled Patala - Arjuna started  war with them but after a long battle came out victorious - He went to the city of demons and giants called Hiranyapura on his chariot  -Indra praised his son for his victory and gifted him a chain of gold, a diadem, and a war shell which has a hard blas

Far beyond the depths of the deep dark ocean was the city of Tyran that had massive destruction due to being under attack by a gang of siren mermaids that destroyed everything in their path. These sirens could grow up to forty feet long and throw as much as two tons of concrete. In the city of Tyran lived a half-woman, half mermaid named Sita, who was torn between her longing to be on dry land or remain with her family in the ocean. She was so determined also to find a husband to help her take over the underwater city of Tyran so that she could rule her kingdom. The problem was, most mermen saw her as abnormal because of her human-like appearance. She longed for a man to fall in love with and spend the rest of her days. One day Sita was watching the sunset like she did almost every evening near a buoy when she was taken by surprise by a nearby boat. Among this boat was a handsome man that also was watching the sunset. He noticed Sita and assumed she was drowning, so he jumped in

-Vidura, brother of Pandu and Bhristarashtra. -His mother was a slave so he could never be named king -Member of and devotes himself to the Pandavas -Pandava brothers living in the wilderness -Bhima and Hidimbi have  a love afair even though they are on opposing families -Bhrima battles with an asura named Baka - Pandavas are disguised as brahmins  - swayamwara of Draupadi -Arjuna won Draupadi as his bride at the swayamwara -Although all five brothers will become her husband -Yudhishthira becomes a king of Indraprastha on the river of Yamuna -Arjuna is exciled for breaking the rules and he meets the Naga princess Ulupi -Arjuna and Chitra, who is the daughter of the king on Manipur -Arjuna and her have a son whom he leaves at the city to become King -Arjuna marries subhadra who is the sister of Krishna -Adventure of Arjuna of Krishna involve meeting Maya who is the architect of the gods. -The burning of the forest -Maya building a palace for the Pandavas, and the Duryo