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Reading Notes: Seven Secrets of the Goddess Lakshmi Part B

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The Video that I choose to take notes on is called “Seven Secrets of the Goddess”. The fifteenth and sixteenth part of the video is called Lakshmi’s Secret. It was a really interesting video I got to learn a lot of stuff in this video about Goddess Lakshmi’s and how do people see Lakshmi’s as a Goddess. This video starts off by explaining what “Lakshmi” means the video said it means food in nature and wealth in culture. It was an interesting concept to learn that Lakshmi can have more than one meaning in a different scenario. Lakshmi favorite animal is an elephant because she is always shown in a picture with an elephant beside her. An elephant is her favorite animal because where elephants do not have any prey or predator in the food chain, and elephants always gather where there are water and water means lots of plants and life. That why elephants are her favorite animal. Lakshmi has three father and Varuna, Puluman, and Bhri gu. One of Lakshmi faster as Asuras and he is Varuna ...

Reading Notes: Seven Secrets of the Goddess Durga Part A

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  The Video that I choose to take notes on is called “Seven Secrets of the Goddess”. The eleventh and twelfth part of the video is called Durga Secret. It was a really interesting video I got to learn a lot of stuff in this video about Goddess Durga and how do people see Durga as a Goddess. It also talks about why Durga is seen this way. There are multiple parts in this video that I liked and my first favorite part of this video is starts of the video where they describe how a male God offering is different during ritual or puja and how female goddess offering is different during the ritual. The offering the male God gets such as Vishnu are food, flower, leaves, lamps, and incense, but the offering the female goddess gets such as Durga is Haldi (turmeric), Kunku (red power), Kajal (Kohl), a pieces of cloth to serve as her upper garment the choli (blouse), the chundri (veil), and the chadar (shawl). They do that because they want to cower up the Goddess so she would look more like ...