Indian Epics

Durga I chose to start with Durga because I just watched several videos featuring her from Seven Secrets of the Goddess by Devdutt Pattanaik (2016). Durga is a popular form of Hindu goddess associated with war and combatting demonic forces. Often depicted riding a lion or tiger with multiple arms wielding weapons that she uses both to defend and deal punishments. Durga Wik i Durga Puja is an annual festival celebrating the goddess Durga epitomizes the victory of good over evil but is also a harvest festival celebrates the goddess as motherly power behind all creation  Durga Puja Wiki Sindoor a red-orange cosmetic powder from India usually worn by married women along the part of their hair I got here from the Durga Puja page because it states that married women smear this on the statues of the goddess on the tenth day of the festival the main components of sindoor are usually cinnabar, turmeric, and lime Sindoor Wiki Lead Poisoning I ende...

Gaia I chose to start with Gaia because I have been watching the  Seven Secrets of the Goddess  by Devdutt Pattanaik (2016) videos on YouTube for my weekly readings and the first two videos deal with Gaia and female deities. "In Greek mythology, Gaia is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. She is the immediate parent of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods) and the Giants, and of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra." Source: Gaia Wiki Hesiod "Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active ...

"I'll Fly Away" I started with this hymn because I wrote about the lyric essay I wrote in this week's famous last words assignment. It included hymns from my great-grandmother's old hymnal. "'I'll Fly Away', is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message " Source: "I'll  Fly Away" Wiki Charley Pride Charley Pride is an Ameican country singer who was successful in the mid-70s.  His most known song is probably "Just Between You and Me." Fun Fact: Before he was a recording artist he played professional baseball. I ended up at Charley Pride's Wikipedia page because he recorded a version of "I'll Fly Away." Source: Charley Pride Wiki Negro American League I got here because Charlie Pride played baseball for the Memphis Red Sox which was a part of the Negro America League. "The Negro American...

Vritra I chose to start with Vritra because I am using him as a main character in my storybook project  He is a serpent or dragon, the personification of drought, and adversary of Indra. Vritra was also known in the Vedas as Ahi He appears as a dragon blocking the course of the rivers and is heroically slain by Indra. Source: Vritra Wiki Metal I ended up on the Wiki for metal because on the Vritra page part of the story about how Vritra is defeated by Indra says that he could not be attacked with anything made of metal, wood, or stone. Source: Metal Wiki Currency I then went from metal to coinage and ended up on the wiki page for currency "In the most specific use of the word, currency refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation." Source: Currency Wiki Tan...

Hindu Mythological Wars Ancient Hindu wars are the battles described in the Hindu texts of ancient India. These battles depict great heroes, demons, magic weapons, supernatural beings. Most of the major wars were said to be fought to uphold Dharma (righteousness that brings prosperity to humanity) over Adharma (wickedness that causes humanity to suffer). Source: Hindu Mythological Wars Wiki Celestial Weapons Brahmastra: is a weapon said to be embedded with the power of Brahma that releases millions of missiles that can cause mass destruction and even the end of civilizations if not wielded by a celestial fighter. The power of this weapon is compared to that of modern nuclear weapons. Source: Celestial Weapons   Nuclear Weapon "A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions." Source: Nuclear Weapon Wiki Nuclear Fallout "Is the residual r...