Reading Notes Part D:The Mongoose

Kurukshetra seen a golden half body mongoose and it spoke out to them and said "Ye kings, this great sacrifice is not equal to a little measure of powdered brely given away by a liberal and after this the mongoose told the following story to them a family was living on the grains of corn and working really hard in the land of waste and the amount of food started to disappear and the family started to lose weight and get thin. They were so giving to their guest , that in the end the mongoose blessed them by his body turning into gold magical powder.

The Mongoose

Biblography: By Laura Gibbs. The Mongoose

Reading Notes Part C:Life in the Forest

In this story the Pandava princes travel through the deep forest , this lead to them living off the stuff in the forest. They had to live off fruits and roots , there were so many reptiles and hungry wild animals in the forest just wondering around amongst everyone. Brahmin started to call to the sun god and Yudhishthira started to pray in hope of better days. Surya seen how they was struggling and gave him a copper pot that was filled with food and goods. living in the forest for so long they were happy they got food so they ate and gave the rest to the other people living there. There was so much stuff going on in the forest but they made the best of it.

Life in the Forest

Bibliogrpahy: Life in the Forest . By Laura Gibbs

Week 6, Story:

Mayasura

This tale, tells about two people that go on a famous adventure and discovery so many new things they would of never thought. The first person they meet with is Maya the divine architect of gods. This name Maya stands for something so great and it is opposed to the feminine name Maya. It has more of a masculine meaning so it tends to have a different name. Mayasura has another story where he had befriended a snake named Takshaka and they lived in a area where they had friends and family. But when Pandavas came they burnt the entire forest down which caused the snake to run away and everything was dead in the forest. Krishna and Pandavas were some troublemakers, looking for some trouble to get into. So one night they seen this picnic going on and wanted to join, walking into that party they seen so many women that they fell inlove. In the party there were two mother boys named Draupadi and Subhadra that gave in to the females in that party simply because they was intoxicated. Later on, Krishna and Arjuna were telling stories when two men in ragged up clothes and the two of them thought these men were hero. Angi was a unique individual and did not just eat any kind of food, he was the god of fire so he could not just eat anything. After, eating so much Ghee it had made him sick where he was weak and pale. After, see Angi this way Krishna and Arjuna said they were going to help him if he was able to get them some weapons to carry on them. He provided them with some many weapons that they were ready for anything that would come their way. A great battle was sure to come and they were going to be ready for anything.

bibliography: The Burning of The Forest  

Reading Notes Part B: The Gambling Match

Duryodhana was plotting something big for everybody to see but what? During this time they did a lot of gambling and shakuni, prince of Gandhara and the brother of Dhritarashtra's queen were brushing up on there gambling skills. Duryodhana is a master mind at rolling dice that's why he wanted Yudhishthira to roll the dice with him. Leading into the next day Yudhishthira and his brethren went to a gambling match together. Going into the gambling game and Yudhishthira came out in the end losing still.

The Gambling Game Is Lit

Bibliography:The Gambling Game check it out !

Reading Notes Part A: Vyasa and Ganesha

Vyasa was very excited about getting somebody to write things down for him but he felt nobody was worthy enough to do that for him. During this time he was trying to find somebody a person by the name of Brahma came and told him that his new scribe would be god Gabesha, but there was one agreement they had came to and that was he was not allowed to stop writing. This was all fun and games, basically people were using people to get there ways. So, one day during the day a man and his kids were fishing and they found this beautiful fish, so the fishermen took it to the king. Once the king saw the pretty fish he took possession over the boy and not the girl because she smelled like fish. Then one day he came across her again in the water and made her promise that she would remain a virgin for the rest of her life.

mahabharata:Vyasa and ganesha

Bibliography: Vyasa and Ganesha Link to Auhtor:Vyasa 

Comment Wall

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Reading Notes, Little Squirrel who helped Lord Rama

This story tells about a squirrel that changed a man's life. On one day Rama saw a small brown squirrel walking along the seashore carrying rocks in its mouth. A "great" monkey  was confused when he ran into the squirrel and the squirrel told the monkey to basically watch where he was going because he was in the middle of helping Rama build a bridge. And he did not need anything in his way because he wanted to work hard for him. After, hearing that the monkey got offensive and lashed back. Making funny of him because he could only carry pebbles and not anything else like rocks (which they were able to do that). I see in this story it was a hate love relationship because the squirrel wanted to do the best he could and the monkey was not trying to let him prosper.

little-squirrel

Bibliography: Ramayana story: Little squirrel who helped Lord Rama!

Reading Notes, Part D: The Bridge

In this reading I picked "The Bridge", this story is part of the Ramayana series. In this story they talk about Hanuman superpowers and how him and his army of monkeys and bears needed to get across the water safe. Rama was determined to get the God of Ocean to help him move across the water. He was in such range that he got his bow and was about to shot it if they did not follow this request.grabbing the King of Ocean attention he was able to have to waves lifted were he could cross the ocean.

King of Ocean

Bibliography:  Ramayana: The Bridge

Reading Notes , Rama's Confession Part C

In Rama's Confession he states why it was okay to kill Vali. In a newspaper it had said that the god-man had every right to slay the monkey king, so Rama was not upset about killing Vali but he felt it was what he had to do as a man. After Rama had shot his arrow and it went through Vali body, he was so scared that he hide because Vali was a powerful person and his powers would pass on to the person who took his life and Rama did not want that to happen to him. There was a reason Rama needed to kill Vali because if not all hell would have broken loose between everybody in the kingdom.

Rama killed Vali from behind a tree

Bibliography: Original story toward;(UC press e-books)

 Rama's Confession to Vali's Death  

"Feedback Thoughts"

Read about it: why is rejection so much ---and what to do about it
The first post I pick it "why rejection hurts so much --- and what to do about it. In this article I learned that a lot of human beings use social media because when they are rejected by a person it does not affect them that bad, verse if it was in person. Being over the internet is a sense of safety. I learned that no matter what kind of rejected that happens to a person , rejected is rejected and it always hurts. 

Rejection at its finest

Read about it: Overcoming the Fear of Feedback 
The second one I picked is called "Overcoming the Fear of Feedback. Reading this article I found out a lot of people are scared to receive/read feedback they are giving simply because they think they are being criticized by the way they think or when they share how they feel about a certain subject. 

Topic Brainstorm

1.

Jatayu

 the first topic story i am doing is called "Jatayu" this story comes from Animal Characters of the Ramayana ideas. This story is about a young boy of Aruna .I am interested in this topic because it has to deal with a man trying to save this womened named Sita from the bird (demon). I might be able to gain more knowledge from this story.

2. Second topic story will be Jambavan , this indian epic poetry has to deal with king of bears. bears during this time were known asiatic bears which were part of tradition.
3.Sampati is part of the Jatayu, he is the brother and son of Aruna and Jatayu. This story would be good for a story book, because it ties along with the other story so it might help we expand when i start to write for the big project. This story kind of relates to the lives the two brothers lived. Kind of telling the future for Jatayu story tale.
4. Sugriva is one of the monkeys in the other storytell. He was the younger brother of Vali. Reading through this story i seen the two boys trying to get ready to take over the monkey kingdom in the city. Vali ruled kishkindha, along with subjects that helped him run it.

I never had any knowledge of these Indian Epics story, but i try to throw my focus on the ones that are related to animals.

Week Story 2 The Mouse and The Snakes

Author Note: Orginal Text, Remake text below

Lovers and Friends

A mouse lived in the tall savanna grass in Africa all by itself. There was so many different creatures that roamed in this savanna grass. You never knew what to expect, so living out there so small anything was bound to happen. Two snakes lived just about half a mile away from the rest of the animals in the grass. Theses snakes had something up their sleeve, they were so determined to get the mouse away from it's safety zone. They did not mean no harm, but they thought it would be best if the mouse came with them and traveled a little bit, rather than being stuck in the village not knowing nothing for the rest of it's life. So, the mouse thought long and hard about making this decision and he thought it was the right one. Then, one this day they peered through the grass and seen the mouse out eating and yelled "Mouse Hey were going to be great friends one day and you can travel with us back to our tunnel.

: How am I able to, if I'm not allowed to leave ?"

"No worried about that we will help you move through the grass without being seen"

As a few days went by, the mouse sat there waiting for the snakes to come up with a good plan. Waiting on them to arrive the mouse looked at his surroundings.

Out of nowhere, "Hey Hey" (the snakes) Are you ready to go across the Savanna grass with us"

Mouse replied, "Yes I am, I finally get to have friends"

As, the mouse and Snake tried to move through the grass without being seen, some of the mouse that lived close to the mouse and seen him leaving! "Where are you going" "We see you leaving!!!!"

Looking back the mouse replied, "All you guys mind your business, I am finally getting from the danger zone, I will now live with my snake friends and be protected forever!" 

Within, 2 seconds a hawk comes down and grabs the mouse by the head and it kills him instantly. The two snakes started to move on, and heard the neighborhoods of the mouse say "Man he thought he was endangered here. but i guess not. Maybe next time he will listen to us.

Now, the moral of the story is not as deep as people might think it is. The moral or the story is not that the snakes had a master plan up their sleeve to get the mouse killed, but they wanted the mouse to get out his comfort zone and see what the real world was like, being enclosed in the same environment since birth the mouse did not know any better when dealing with the real world. So, to make the long story short, never let peer pressure , pressure you into doing something you know is wrong because at the end of the day you might end up dead like the mouse. 

Bibliography: "Turtle" by Ellworth Young. Website