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Lakshmi's Secret: Food is life. It attracts all, everyone comes to it. Heard/ pack began with animals. Lion is alpha. Elephants are related to Lakshmi. Daves lives in the sky and Asuras below the earth. A pot carries the water and becomes owned. They are usually wealthy. The battle between wealth.  Sachi, her love was born by actions. She loved men who took action. Her lover tried to kill the Pandavas. Prince Ayoda kills him.  The husband and wife, she explains that he doesn't need much but the people need things.Like wealth.  Luki and Ganisha affluence and abundance.  He wanted to show the god that he needed shiva. He eats all the god has.  Indra has to "make milk" and churn the ocean to bring back lakshmi. She is drawn to Vishnu.  He wants to outgrow his hunger and help others.  Budavi=cow and Tredavi= ( elephant ) Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

Durga's Secret: Domesticating nature without invoking the mind. She rides a lion and has a nose ring which makes her a little domesticated.She is Brahms, daughter. She wants to marry Shiva but they do not want her to get married. She saved baby Krishna.   Durga is all the parts of all the gods.  Aham verses the atam. We go to animal self.  The gramdivity is more ritual. She is a rock and has a nose ring. The village is her body. They sacrifice an animal. They torture themselves for her. She was beaten so she revenged him. Yeven sees a man bathing she wants him but they behead her and she is brought back to life.  A Sati protects her husband with her chastity. Seven women get pregnant by Shive they are all married and the women abort the babies. They turn into one person with 7 heads.  He brings death. Shitala also brings death and sickness.  ( Durga ) Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

Chapter 3 Kali is nature and Guri is culture. Female is the matter and the man is the mind.  Vishnu is the only god that understands these two goddesses. Shiva disagrees that women are property etc. Sita and Shiva are married.  Shiva father turns away from her. She jumps into the fire and dies, Sita carries her around. He sprinkles her body around to have places to worship. Shiva has a son with 6 heads. Parvati asks for a son and Shiva says no. She makes her own. He gets jealous and kills him and then replaces his head. She becomes the food goddess. ( Gauri ) Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

Chapter 2: Kali is awesome goddesses who cut off men's heads.She was naked, had crazy hair, tongue out. She is power. She consumes human society. Violence becomes nourishment, she rips their heads off and drinks the blood. She is also the one on top.  Radha really changed the way traditional relationships were looked at.  She loved Krishna They tried to change Kali because of her intense image. She became an image of women all over the world. ( Kali ) Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

There was a far off village in the Nanda Devi Mountains. There were many happy people there and they were ruled by a goddess who loved everyone. Her name was Goddess D, named after the mountains. They did not mind that they were ruled by a woman until outsiders began to come in and cause uproar that a woman was leading men. The villagers have only had women as leaders all through out their history. This way of uproar started to take a toll on the villagers and they began to think like the outsiders. The goddess was hurt and angry by her people abandoning her. Goddess D was pacing the floor while talking to her mother who was very ill: " I cannot believe my people are looking for another god. I have provided rain , food and fertility. What else could these people want. I have gave them all of me and they still want more. They want a man. Pfft like a man can do better. All they want is to fight and have sex. This is not right for the village. " Her mother: " Oh dear one

Chapter 1: A man rejected sex and turned into god of death and she turned into goddess of the night.  When men rejected women it was looked at as something that makes them strong.  Women chose their lovers. This came to an end.  Men took everything away from women when they became prostitution.  Men really flipped the board. Controlling women and how many husbands they could have. Women have turned into a trophy instead above men. No women are goddesses anymore. Women are looked at as needing saving. ( GoddessofNight ) Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

Gaia's Secret 1-2: Many men had to fight for a woman's womb. This is why laws on marriage happened. Men are not as many men are needed for reproduction. Woman killed their men after being used. If they wanted to live they had to castrate themselves.  Virgin does not mean the same thing as it does today. It is a woman who is ready to have children. Usually, women were "whores". They could freely choose who to have sex with. Since then times and definitions have changed.  ( Pregnancy ) Bibliography: Seven Secrets of the Goddess , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

King Jacob had a very special tree to him and his people. He thought it was so special that he built a wall around his town. They had a tree that was filled with fresh apples. They were crisp, sweet and juicy. As you bit into it juices would flow from it. This apple gave them the nutrients they needed, they were not like any other people because this could sustain them. Other people around them could not know about this tree because they would want it all for themselves. A young boy, Timmy,  was picking apples and had the idea to sell them at a farmers market in the city right next to them.  Timmy: Come get your local apples, they are the best apples you could ever have! Crowds of people: I want one, I want 5, I want some, take me to the tree. Timmy: This tree is a secret and you will never find it. Timmy made so much money, but he would have to pay a much worse price in the end. The crowds of people began to whisper and talk poorly of Timmy.  ( AppleTree ) Later that night

The Two Pigs: Two pigs were picked up by a lovely old lady. She raised these pigs. One day drunk men wanted more meat but the mother called out a warning call to them. A magical growth in flowers made the men not want to eat the pigs but to worship them. The Patient Buffalo: A monkey was annoying the buffalo. He did not hurt the monkey but explained that he was little. A fairy granted him no harm. The Sarabha: A king wanted this animal who was unique. He hunted him and fell into a hole and the animal saved him. The animal granted for him not to hunt in the forest. The Goblin Town: Men were shipwrecked on an island. The goblins dressed up as women and tempted the men and wanted to kill them. After finding out a horse came to save them. The Great Elephant: An elephant saw men passing through the desert and asked what was wrong. They need food and water. He told them to go to the hill. He had sacrificed himself so they could have food. The Quarrelsome Quails: The king advised t

The Monkey Bridge: The monkeys had a tree that had very fresh mangos and they did not want the men to find it. They made sure to not let the fruit flow downstream to them.  One day a fruit fell and the men came after their tree. They had no way to escape so the Chief monkey lets them cross over his body and a reed to get to the other tree to live. The chief was crushed and died. The Guilty Dogs: There was a King who had horses and the royal dogs had eaten the leather for the horses. He wanted every dog to die because of this. Now the chief dog went to the king to explain that only the royal dogs did it. They killed the royal dogs and the rest lived. Banyan: A golden bayan was in charge of 500 deer and then more. The king liked to hunt the deer and they were messing up the land. The deer decided that they would sacrifice their self every day. When it came time a mother still need to feed her child so the golden bayan laid his life down for all animals. The king granted his wish. T