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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