Reading Notes: Seven Secrets of the Goddess Part A
The Video that I choose to take notes on is called “Seven Secrets of the Goddess”. The first part of the video is called Gaia’s Secret. It was a really interesting video I got to learn a lot of stuff about Goddess and Goddess from different mythology such as Greek, Hindu, Egyptian mythology etc. The video starts of with Greek mythology Goddess Gaia’s and she is the Earth Goddess of the Greek mythology and it talks about how the Goddess Gaia’s gave birth to Kronos. But he wasn’t born normally because Kronos was stuck in Gaia’s womb and the only way to get out of her mother womb is to castrate his father and he did. And from that blood was born Goddess of Love Aphrodite and Goddess of Retribution Erinyes. The most shocking part of this story is that when Kronos haves his own sons he started eating them because he was afraid that they would do the same thing to him that he couldn’t kill his last son Zeus the god of thunder because Gaia raised him in secret. In the end, Zeus comes backs and kills him.
There was one more story that I found really interesting and it is from Hindu it talks about the birth of Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh, the three main god of Hinduism. It a little different story than I thought because the story that I know is that Vishnu was born from the nothingness and from him came Brahma. But in the story, it tells that Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh was born form Adya the Goddess of Power who is a supreme being. And she wanted to have intercourse with all three gods but Brahma refuse her by saying he sees her as a mother, Adya didn’t like Vishnu because he was shrewd and Mahesh accepted her but he put out one condition that was to get her third eye in return. But at the end, Mahesh destroyed her with that third eye and didn’t intercourse with her. From her ashes came three Goddess Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Gauri. They became the wife of those three main gods. Those two stories were really interesting to me.
This book was written by Devdutt Pattanaik, The title of the Video is Seven Secrets of the Goddess Part A Link
Adya The Goddess of Power. Source
I did not choose this for my reading, and from what you've summarized I'm kind of kicking myself now. This sounds fascinating and I will definitely check it out for our last couple of weeks of free reading at this point. I am looking forward to learning more about other cultures, and the opening you mention should be a nice refresher (I'm planning to take Mythology and Folklore in the fall). Thanks for the summary!
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