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The Legend of Durga

According to the narrative from the Devi Mahatmya of the Markandeya Purana, the form of Durga was created as a warrior goddess to fight a demon. The demon's father Rambha, king of the demons, once fell in love with a water buffalo, and Mahishasur was born out of this union. He is therefore able to change between human and buffalo form at will (mahisha means "buffalo"). Through intense prayers to Brahma, Mahishasura had the boon that he could not be defeated by any man or god. By virtue of this power, he invaded the gods, who went for help to the supreme trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra), but Mahishashura defeated all of the gods including the trinity themselves. He unleashed a reign of terror on earth, heaven and the nether worlds.

Eventually, since only a woman could kill him, the trinity bestowed a dazzling beam of energy upon the Goddess Trinity, transforming her into the goddess, Durga. Her form was blindingly beautiful with three lotus-like eyes, eight powerful hands, lush blonde hair with beautiful curls, a red-golden glow from her skin and a quarter moon on her forehead. She wore a shiny oceanic blue attire emitting fierce rays. Her ornaments were carved beautifully of gold, with ocean pearls and precious stones embedded in it. Her face was sculpted by Shiva, torso by Indra, breasts by Chandra (the moon), teeth by Brahma, bottom by the Earth, thighs and knees by Varuna (water), and her three eyes by Agni (fire). Each god also gave her their own most powerful weapons, Rudra's trident, Vishnu's discus, Indra's thunderbolt, Brahma's kamandal, Kuber's gada, etc. Himalayas gifted her a fierce whitish golden lion. On the end of the 8th and beginning of the 9th day of waxing moon, Chanda and Munda came to fight the goddess. She turned blue with anger and goddess Chamunda leaped out of her third eye. Her form was the most powerful one with 3 red eyes, blood-filled tongue and dark skin; who finally killed the twin demons with her sword. This form of the divine goddess is worshipped during the sandhikshan of Durga Puja festival, as sandhi/chandi puja. Finally on the tenth day of waxing moon, goddess Durga killed Mahishasura with her trident.

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You know, it's kind of a shame what's happened to the internet. We've all gone Ziggy Stardust, making love to our collective ego and jizzing all over our keyboards in the process.

In this big ol' world of self importance, pretention, and delusional, psychosexual man-children, isn't it good to know you can count on your friendly neighbourhood Hindu?

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Ignore the remix intro, gets good around 40.
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Captcha: violating ungulate

Must be fate.
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Quinz J Morro Report | 03/12/2010 10:14 am: Than I managed to.
Quinz J Morro Report | 03/12/2010 10:13 am: .-. Thanks for understanding a portion of my point-of-view and articulating it much more clearly.
586638 Report | 02/26/2010 3:27 pm: You're right. It's almost like the whole GCD has aged collectively. In the beginning, we weren't sure what exactly to do. Then we grew up a bit, had it all down pat. Then came high-school, where popularity was priority. And from there we matured slightly. Now, with most of the "elders" gone, it's up to the new wave of GCDers. Now I'm over-dramatizing, sorry.
586638 Report | 02/26/2010 3:19 pm: Wasn't 2007 the Zurg? I might be mistaken, my gaia memory is failing me.
Prommie heaven was an interesting point. Sort of like..hedonism and the glory of excess.
586638 Report | 02/26/2010 3:16 pm: Back in the days of yore, when plot was fertile and BAW was but a sparke in someone's eye...

In Closing...

SO I WENT FROM DAY TO DAY
though my life was in a rut

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Bastards... you'd think the goddamn exams was the be-all end-all of existence... the cosmic life-force or somethin'. Can't even say a few decent words to a guy... th' bastards... What a bore... take some bennies an' stay up all night with your face stuck in a bunch of books an' your thumbs up your a**... Yes... yes... I remember the time when it was all very inspiring and enlightening... all this history and literature and sociology s**t... You think learning is a really big thing an' you become this big ********' intellectual and sit around tryin' ta out-intellectual all the other big ********' intellectuals... you spend years and years with your nose buried in these goddamn tomes while out there the world is passin' you by... and all the stuff to see and all th' kicks an' girls are all out there... an' ME, a writer ad a poet who should be havin' adventures an' experiencing all the diversities and paradoxes and ironies of life and passin' over all the roads of the world and digging all the cities and towns and rives and oceans... and making all them chicks!

from here on out, i'm living every day as though it were my last.