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Every Google and Youtube search is now filled with “meaning in Hindi”/“Hindi translation”. It’s fucking miserable to search for stuff now thanks to Jeets.
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Of course not, it's a fucking change.org petition.
But seeing this many Indians act in blind ethnic solidarity with this reckless POS is very redpilling for normies.
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Change.org has always been a ridiculous feel-good measure from the Obama era with basically zero ability to effect things.
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Jeet-worship among edgy rightards is nothing new, it comes from jeet-worshipping edgy rightards from history such as SuperFascist™ Julius Evola or Maximine Portaz (jeet name Savitri Devi). It comes from the wrong assumption that jeet gods have anything to do with le based European pagan gods, when in reality Hindoodooism has as much to do with Indo-European pagan religion as Buddhism or Christianity does.
Hindoodooism itself is a Bri'ish invention meant to keep the jeets in line and the way it's worshipped now has devolved so much from what it used to be over 2000 years ago, due to the weird mixing of authentic poo jeet god rituals and whatever has been left from the Vedic era of jeetland. IMPORTANT - ALL OF THE IMPORTANT JEET GODS FROM THAT ERA ARE NOW AS RELEVANT AS ZEUS IS IN EUROPE RIGHT NOW, JUST A CURIOUS PIECE OF MYTHOLOGY! Case in point - Lord (Saar) Indra, the thunder god, used to be the most important god in the Indian panthenon, as it is the case with every other IE religion. Now? He's not even worshipped. Maybe there's a few spergs having personal shrines to him, but again it's on the level of some Greek sperg putting a (tourist souvenir) statue of Zeus on his nighstand to "pray" to.
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they do have "kill all pedos" laws and considering child marriage rates in india there's probably a 50/50 shot they could at least get pajeet for fucking kids.
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I've never heard of any non-pajeet calling pajeets virile or rugged.
"Traditionalist" doesn't mean anything, because the traditions can be shit eating and cowdung lobbing festivals just as easily as loving your neighbor.
Sacrificing children to Kali isn't morally superior. I've never heard anyone say this except sycophantic pajeets.
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Is there a petition to INCREASE the punishment?
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The quote the Great absolute monarchist philosopher Jean Bowden sovereigns who are not the Cure in the world often higher large amounts of foreign mercenaries that turn on them as soon as the money Runs Out
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I think its only fair to distinguish Edgetard Right infatuation with India and Pajeets pre 1950-1970 when all they had to go off was ultra sanitised western fanfiction about their alleged spiritualism, from currentyear mouthbreathing Fuentes wannabes who can see the pajeet in his full repulsive splendour and yet still choose to fellate his turds. Admittedly "Savitri Devi" did indeed move to india, however according to the records she was also a hideously unhygenic literal cat lady and so she may well have found herself perfectly at home there. Furthermore as much as it boils my piss to admit it, the same can be said for retarded left wingers of yore who romanticised this cursed subcontinent without ever seeing the horror of its actual existence in the clarity we do now.
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The reason why he doesn't care is because the sanctity of life in India is so low, they fall off trains and buses every 30 seconds and nobody there bats an eye because they know they are all worthless. Jeets are a special brand of retard that when they make it to white countries they assume everyone else is worthless too despite having spent soooo much effort to make it here. Same for our laws and justice system - India doesn't have a constitution and their courts are corrupt so they assume it is like that here too.
Another reason why jeets do this is because it works in the corporate world assuming whatever you did isn't to the point of being a crime. Just throw yourself at HR in advance and pull the "pls saar no speak english I am humble smelly brown paaarson, give me get out of jail free card saaaar I didn't mean it" and their cringey HRtard disney "everything has to be opposite and backwards" programming goes into effect because they think you are the misunderstood main character in a disney movie.
Literally every single combination of words autocompletes "_____ in hindi" on google and youtube because jeets know that the Indian versions of those sites are... full of Indians with no money, so they specifically go out of their way to go to the USA versions to try to do scams. No matter how hard you try to write an algorithm to filter them out (google employees can't "just ban india" they have cucky HR over them), Indians always get in by basically brute forcing it since there's 1.4 bil brown hands all trying to upload scam shit to english speaking countries. That's why the great brown firewall is so important - it covers all your bases you don't even know about and solves the countless individual battles that programmers are having with HRturds at all these companies.
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Of all the Oriental races in the world and you chose Korean?
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Once again another situation of how I can look at the DOT website, their flowcharts, and the requirements listing of motor carrier registration and DOT #s and think, yes, this is all figured out and when there's a problem it could be traced by an authority in minutes. And yet I also know that's not true, that jeets are infamous up and down both coasts for worming their way into state DMVs and establishing truck driving "schools" that exclusively admit other indians and then just stamp all the paperwork fraudulently and hand them the CDL. And somehow trucking companies can be shells inside shells with return addresses of some old man's anal cavity in a grave yard in New Mexico and it never triggers any red flags *when they do it*.
It was either last year or the year before there was a big bust in Massachusetts of a large jeet operation where even the state highway patrol was in on it because even there in MA where supposedly this couldn't happen because state police have to sign off on CDL applications, it can be bribed off by enough jeets.
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Hey, be grateful, he could've chosen Filipino.
Albeit it's debatable if SEA's can be considered Oriental.
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asked my Chinese friend, he called Filipinos niggers.
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I once heard them called Sea Mexicans and it stuck for me.
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It's not just CDLs or the tech sector it's EVERYTHING.
Jeets are making 50 cents an hour in India to jump head first into a sewer and clean the shit out with their bare hands and no tools and get cancer and die at 30.
They will literally kill each other to make it over here to make $7.25 an hour digging ditches or sucking HR's cock.
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That's fair enough to a point, but Evola should've fucking known better. Especially someone like him who wrote an absolute classic in comparative mythology with his The Mystery of the Grail. Someone who did as much research in ancient mythology as he did should've had access to literature which told him that whatever pop-history view he had of Hindoodooism (MUH ONLY SURVIVING INDO-EUROPEAN PAGAN RELIGION!) is completely different from actual reality (jeet poop demon gods). I mean a similar case is the late Roman Empire, they absorbed so many gods from their subjects that late Roman mythology is completely unrecognizable from the pop-history view of Roman mythology, which is based on Republican Rome and the early Imperial Rome. Examples include Isis and Cybele replacing Juno, local gods like Serapis (Greco-Egyptian) or Sucellus (Gallo-Roman) being more important and sometimes even conflated with Jupiter in these areas, Mythras being the god you needed to worship if you wanted to be somebody in a political sense in the Legions, Sol rising from an unimportant god to one of the most important ones due to the influence of Aurelian etc.
For example imagine some bizarro universe where Christianity never took hold in Europe and instead took hold in I dunno let's say Japan and suddenly Mamoru is like "Hai I want to go to Itary and see REAL PAGANZU worshippu ze Jupiter and Mars". Then he reads a book on modern paganism in Italy and sees that suddenly Cloacina is the head goddess of the Roman panthenon and every Italian bathes himself in sewer shitwater as a form of worship. In aqua cloacae lavamus, domineeeee *headbobs in Latin*
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I'm just dumping it in here because it's probably more of interest in this thread.
Here's a (shitty) context and summary of him from the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is an epic poem that's about 15 times longer than the Bible (it's where the Bhagavad-Gita is from). It's not one of the Vedas that's viewed as divine revelation/scripture (a bit like the Bible) but is a bit more like catcheism, the Talmud or the Hadiths... that's an incredibly tenuous comparison, though, as it's also the story of a great war and some Hindu Nationalists believe it to be completely factual.
He's an incredibly minor character. From a narrative standpoint, you could completely scrap him and it would change nothing (the demon-vampire-warlock he loses to gets killed by someone else). The main purpose of this is to show that absolutely everyone in all of India got involved in this war, and to give more meaning to the Princess Snake-Mermaid (who later revives the archery man with a magical snake stone after he gets killed by a different son over a cow)... and the only reason she's relevant is to link into a snake killing ceremony that's sort of the framing device.
The thing to bear in mind here is that this epic poem was originally composed in Sanskrit and shared orally so a lot of changes crept in. Especially when it interfaced with the Dravidian folk religions in Southern India. For reference here are some Tamil statues
A belief that was held by these peoples was that you could offer some sort of sacrifice up to Korravai, their locally venerated war goddess, as a way of ensuring victory. And they codified it. So there's several words they use, like நவகண்டம் (Navakandam) - "nine cuts", wherein nine veins around the body would be slashed, or அரிகண்டம் (Arikandam), "throat cutting" wherein you'd cut your own throat or offer up your throat to be cut. There's also களப்பலி (Kalappali) "battlefield sacrifice" which could carry the meaning of going on a suicide mission as on offering, or literally sacrificing yourself on the battlefield. These statues typically memorialise people who did it. You'd need to use the Tamil script to google it, because most English-language sites will insist this is metaphorical or only referenced in hagiography (and I've yet to find a good copy of Alf Hiltebeitel's out-of-print anthropological works on it).
Anyway, in Tamil retellings of the myth, the astronomers foretold that the Pandava would definitely lose the war unless they made a human sacrifice to Kali on the night of the full moon. The sacrifice had to possess the 32 signs of a great man (lifted from Brahamnism/Buddhism) but the only people about who possessed those were Krishna, Arjuna (Aravan's father, the great archer) and Aravan. They couldn't sacrifice Krishna because Krishna was a manfiestation of Vishnu and you can't sacrifice a mortal manifestation of Vishnu to Kali, that would just be crazy. Arjuna was too strategically important. So Aravan volunteered himself as sacrifice, on three conditions: 1. He got to get married before he sacrificed himself, 2. He got to die a heroic death in battle and 3. He'd get to see the outcome of the war.
With regards to marriage, this was alternatively because if he died unmarried he wouldn't receive full death rites and "dharmic end"... or because he wanted to get laid. However, no woman would marry Aravan because she'd get stuck as a widow. So instead Krishna transformed himself into a beautiful woman, Mohini. They got married, and the next day Aravan went to Kali's temple and either beheaded himself or cut himself into 32 pieces, on for each of his great signs, and Mohini went through all the mourning rites of a widow before turning back into Krishna and carrying on with the war. In terms of the second "boon", obviously at this point he was already dead, but his body magically knitted back together so he could go off and fight in the war and die a heroic death on the battlefield. And the third boon? Well, then his head carried on living and got to watch the rest of the war, and depending on who you ask it even got into an argument about the outcome and thrown in a river, where it eventually turned into a child that goes around killing demons or something. Veneration of Aravan often involves worshipping his decapitated head, putting the decapitated head on a clay body and then smashing it up, and in some cases the previously mentioned ritual where the hijra (usually referred to here as aravanis/alis) all get married to Aravan, do weird sex stuff, and then go into a period of mourning when he "dies".
Because there's not really a central religious text outside of the Vedas and there's no formal head of the faith, it's not really possible to say "your version is heretical". The three largest sects all disagree about who's the supreme leader, besides agreeing it's not Brahma (Vaishnavism - Vishnu made the universe and all the other Gods, Shaivism - actually it's Shiva who did that, Shaktism - actually it's the Goddess Shakti) and each sect is made of subsects that disagree about various things... but they're still pretty removed from these forms of worship that will notionally lump themselves in under the umbrella of Hinduism and sometimes influence "Vedic" Hinduism. There does seem to be attempts to crack down on the stuff that's seen to vary massively from the "mainstream" forms of Hinduism. Honestly I find folk religion like this fascinating, the closest comparison point to some of these sort of Gramadevata would be like the Lares of Ancient Rome.
Here's a bonus image I found
This probably depicts the severed head of Aravan alongside the blue Krishna-Mohini hermaphrodite figure, both laid at the feet of a Mariamman (a Tamil goddess that they sub in for Kali). I'm beginning to understand why the first reaction most Europeans had upon reaching Southern India was "oh my God they're all worshiping demons"
To take a random example, this unsettling fellow (who jolts something primal in my brain) is Iravan/Aravan/Koothandavar.
Here's a (shitty) context and summary of him from the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is an epic poem that's about 15 times longer than the Bible (it's where the Bhagavad-Gita is from). It's not one of the Vedas that's viewed as divine revelation/scripture (a bit like the Bible) but is a bit more like catcheism, the Talmud or the Hadiths... that's an incredibly tenuous comparison, though, as it's also the story of a great war and some Hindu Nationalists believe it to be completely factual.
Once upon a time, there was a great and noble king called Mahabhisha, who had ruled over the Kosala kingdom. He ritually sacrificed a crazy number of horses so the Gods were happy with him and let his soul spend a very long time in the celestial reincarnation waiting room, and the Gods held him in such high esteem that he was allowed to visit Brahma-the-creator's court. While he was there, a gust of wind blew up the goddess Ganga's clothes. Everyone turned their eyes away, except for King Mahabhisha, who stared at her hungrily (which Ganga was into). This really pissed off Brahma, who cursed Mahabhisha with going back to being a mortal, and also cursed Ganga with temporarily being a mortal until she broke Mahabhisha's heart. King Mahabhisha asked that he could be reborn as the son of King Pratipa (from the completely unrelated Kuru Kingdom) which Brahma agreed to.
King Pratipa who was ascetic ended up having a baby with his Queen, who they named Shantanu (this is the reincarnated Mahabhisha). His eldest brothers had leprosy and had abdicated in favour of a maternal throne respectively, so Shantanu got to be king. One day he met a beautiful woman (mortal-Ganga) who he fell in love with. She said "I'm happy to marry you on the basis that you never question anything I do". He agreed, and soon she gave birth to a lovely baby boy.... that she immediately drowned. But he couldn't ask her why she did it. This happened another seven times, but with the last baby King Shantanu intervened and asked why. Ganga explained that these were the eight Vasus (elemental deities) and they'd all been unrelatedly cursed with mortality for trying to steal a magic cow, so she had to give birth to them but was drowning them to let them skip having to be mortal for very long... but because she'd been questioned, this last one was going to have to live a long pious life and she'd raise him (and then she and the baby vanished). King Shantanu then became world emperor because he was so pious that all the kings just agreed he should get to be emperor, and eventually he reincountered his son who was now highly learned - and named him heir.
A few years later King Shantanu saw another beautiful woman. This one was called Satyavati, and had been conceived when an unrelated king had a wet dream while hunting, and had got an eagle to send his sperm back to his queen, but the eagle dropped it in the river and the sperm got a fish pregnant (the fish was a cursed water nymph). Anyway, she was really beautiful but said she'd only agree to marry King Shantanu if her children would be heirs.... which was an issue given the throne had just been promised to that last son, but thankfully that son agreed to renounce his claim and be celibate. So King Shantanu had two boys with Satyavati. These boys grew up. The eldest one died in battle, unmarried. The younger one married two brides, but died of tuberculosis before he could have heirs. So Satyavati got her son from a previous relationship (their half-brother and also possibly a partial incarnation of Vishnu) to do a quasi-Levirite marriage and get both wives pregnant - although one came out blind and the other one came out really pale.
Everyone agreed that they couldn't have a blind king, so they picked the pale one, Pandu, to be king. One day Pandu was out hunting and he spotted some deer having sex, so he killed them, but it turned out those deer were actually Gods in the form of deer who'd turned into deer to have deer-sex, and they were so pissed they cursed Pandu so that if he ever had sex he would die. Given he couldn't have heirs, he abdicated and went to go be an ascetic in the mountains with his wives, so the blind one (Dhritarashtra) got be be the regent. His wife was nice to a saint so he blessed her to have many children, but she ended up pregnant for 2 years and when she finally gave birth it was a lump of flesh. However she cut the lump of flesh into 101 pieces and put each piece in a jar of ghee, and they all hatched into 100 sons ("the Kauruvas") and also one daughter. Meanwhile Pandu was really sad that he didn't get to have kids, so his oldest wife did special chanting to have children with various Gods and they raised the resulting 5 boys (the Pandava) as their own. However then Pandu suddenly got really horny and had sex with his younger hotter wife and then immediately died, so the 5 boys were sent to be raised alongside their 100 "cousins". The 100 cousins did not like these Pandava and the blind king was ignorant of how nasty his sons were.
Ultimately as Pandu had heirs and Dhritarashtra was not supposed to be king because he was blind and was only the regent, the eldest Pandava was picked to be heir. This really pissed off the 100 Karuvas (particularly the eldest hatchling) so they built an incredibly flammable palace out of oil, butter and laquer and invited the Pandava over. Thankfully the Pandava get clued in on this plan, so come up with their own plan. They dig a secret escape tunnel, then invite a poor tribal woman over with her five sons and get them all really drunk. Then they set the palace on fire themselves, and the burned bodies of these poor people are assumed to be their own. The Pandava then wandered around in disguise for a while. While in disguise there's a completely unrelated bit going on where this neighbouring king is mad at his former friend (who's the Kauruvas' martial arts teacher) and he does a black magic ritual to try and get his wife to bear him a great warrior son, but she faffs about so he throws the offering into the fire and out walks a fully grown warrior-son, but then also a fully grown daughter he didn't ask for called Draupadi who was really beautiful. There's an archery contest for Draupadi and one of the Kauruvas who's really good at archery wins it, and then due to a humorous misunderstanding Draupadi marries all of the brothers and each brother gets one year with her on rotation (and none of the other brothers are allowed in her room for that year), so she has a son with each. The archery guy breaks the rules, so he gets sent on a 12 year celibacy pilgrimage. While on this pilgrimage, a naga (mermaid but snakes) princess spots him bathing and kidnaps him to her underwater kingdom in the Ganges. She convinces him the celibacy only counts about fire woman, so he ends up marrying her and having a son - the Iravan guy above - with her.
Eventually the Pandava reveal themselves as still being alive and also married into and allied with the neighbouring kingdom's very powerful royal family, so to avoid a massive war Dhritarashtra splits the kingdom between the Pandava and the Kauruvas. The Pandava turn their kingdom into a really great one, and the eldest Pandava basically gets to be emperor. This pissess off the 100 Kauruvas, so they come up with a plot. The eldest Pandava loves gambling and also can't disobey a direct order from the Regen Dhritarashtra, so they pretend they're going to have a friendly game and get Regent Dhritarashtra to order this guy to play dice with them. But they've got magic dice so he loses every roll, and eventually loses his kingdom and then himself... and then they make him lose Draupadi (fire woman) and start trying to disrobe her, dragging her about by the hair. This is seen as a step too far, and basically it ends with the Kauruvas having their kingdom restored on the proviso they do 13 years of exile first.
After 13 years the Kauruvas go "no, we're not giving it back on a technicality and also we don't want to". This eventually leads to a great war, in which basically every kingdom has to participate in. There are so many different groups involved in this (all the Kauruvas also had other sons) and Iravan is briefly mentioned as having brought along some armies from an allied kingdom and then also a load of the Naga snake people to fight. Then on the 8th day of this war, Iravan gets into battle with Alumbusha, who's a sort of demon-vampire-warlock. They end up having to have a magic battle, but eventually Alumbusha makes himself look like Garuda, a sort of bird-man-god that Vishnu rides and is simultaneously "king of the birds" and "enemy to every serpent" (and very specifically the nemesis of the nagas). This throws off Iravan enough that either his head gets chopped off or his body gets chopped into pieces.
If anyone's curious, the Pandava win a pyrric victory through killing all 100 Kauruvas and most of their armies, but the son of the martial arts teacher (that that one king made fire-children for) finishes off all their blood lines after the war. The only real comeback is that the final part of the bloodline is an unborn baby boy, so when this guy uses a Holy Hand Grenade to force a miscarraige, Krishna undoes it and curses him for trying that. The book ends with the sole remaining branch of the Pandava. The Kuru Kingdom was a real historical kingdom and in many ways this may be a mytholigised explanation for the downfall of the original warrior-king class (Kshatriya) as leaders, who likely represented the original Indo-Aryan chieftan structure, and the ascendance of the Brahmin Priestly caste as leaders (because by the end of the saga the Kshatriya are basically all dead because they strayed from the path of rightouesness).
King Pratipa who was ascetic ended up having a baby with his Queen, who they named Shantanu (this is the reincarnated Mahabhisha). His eldest brothers had leprosy and had abdicated in favour of a maternal throne respectively, so Shantanu got to be king. One day he met a beautiful woman (mortal-Ganga) who he fell in love with. She said "I'm happy to marry you on the basis that you never question anything I do". He agreed, and soon she gave birth to a lovely baby boy.... that she immediately drowned. But he couldn't ask her why she did it. This happened another seven times, but with the last baby King Shantanu intervened and asked why. Ganga explained that these were the eight Vasus (elemental deities) and they'd all been unrelatedly cursed with mortality for trying to steal a magic cow, so she had to give birth to them but was drowning them to let them skip having to be mortal for very long... but because she'd been questioned, this last one was going to have to live a long pious life and she'd raise him (and then she and the baby vanished). King Shantanu then became world emperor because he was so pious that all the kings just agreed he should get to be emperor, and eventually he reincountered his son who was now highly learned - and named him heir.
A few years later King Shantanu saw another beautiful woman. This one was called Satyavati, and had been conceived when an unrelated king had a wet dream while hunting, and had got an eagle to send his sperm back to his queen, but the eagle dropped it in the river and the sperm got a fish pregnant (the fish was a cursed water nymph). Anyway, she was really beautiful but said she'd only agree to marry King Shantanu if her children would be heirs.... which was an issue given the throne had just been promised to that last son, but thankfully that son agreed to renounce his claim and be celibate. So King Shantanu had two boys with Satyavati. These boys grew up. The eldest one died in battle, unmarried. The younger one married two brides, but died of tuberculosis before he could have heirs. So Satyavati got her son from a previous relationship (their half-brother and also possibly a partial incarnation of Vishnu) to do a quasi-Levirite marriage and get both wives pregnant - although one came out blind and the other one came out really pale.
Everyone agreed that they couldn't have a blind king, so they picked the pale one, Pandu, to be king. One day Pandu was out hunting and he spotted some deer having sex, so he killed them, but it turned out those deer were actually Gods in the form of deer who'd turned into deer to have deer-sex, and they were so pissed they cursed Pandu so that if he ever had sex he would die. Given he couldn't have heirs, he abdicated and went to go be an ascetic in the mountains with his wives, so the blind one (Dhritarashtra) got be be the regent. His wife was nice to a saint so he blessed her to have many children, but she ended up pregnant for 2 years and when she finally gave birth it was a lump of flesh. However she cut the lump of flesh into 101 pieces and put each piece in a jar of ghee, and they all hatched into 100 sons ("the Kauruvas") and also one daughter. Meanwhile Pandu was really sad that he didn't get to have kids, so his oldest wife did special chanting to have children with various Gods and they raised the resulting 5 boys (the Pandava) as their own. However then Pandu suddenly got really horny and had sex with his younger hotter wife and then immediately died, so the 5 boys were sent to be raised alongside their 100 "cousins". The 100 cousins did not like these Pandava and the blind king was ignorant of how nasty his sons were.
Ultimately as Pandu had heirs and Dhritarashtra was not supposed to be king because he was blind and was only the regent, the eldest Pandava was picked to be heir. This really pissed off the 100 Karuvas (particularly the eldest hatchling) so they built an incredibly flammable palace out of oil, butter and laquer and invited the Pandava over. Thankfully the Pandava get clued in on this plan, so come up with their own plan. They dig a secret escape tunnel, then invite a poor tribal woman over with her five sons and get them all really drunk. Then they set the palace on fire themselves, and the burned bodies of these poor people are assumed to be their own. The Pandava then wandered around in disguise for a while. While in disguise there's a completely unrelated bit going on where this neighbouring king is mad at his former friend (who's the Kauruvas' martial arts teacher) and he does a black magic ritual to try and get his wife to bear him a great warrior son, but she faffs about so he throws the offering into the fire and out walks a fully grown warrior-son, but then also a fully grown daughter he didn't ask for called Draupadi who was really beautiful. There's an archery contest for Draupadi and one of the Kauruvas who's really good at archery wins it, and then due to a humorous misunderstanding Draupadi marries all of the brothers and each brother gets one year with her on rotation (and none of the other brothers are allowed in her room for that year), so she has a son with each. The archery guy breaks the rules, so he gets sent on a 12 year celibacy pilgrimage. While on this pilgrimage, a naga (mermaid but snakes) princess spots him bathing and kidnaps him to her underwater kingdom in the Ganges. She convinces him the celibacy only counts about fire woman, so he ends up marrying her and having a son - the Iravan guy above - with her.
Eventually the Pandava reveal themselves as still being alive and also married into and allied with the neighbouring kingdom's very powerful royal family, so to avoid a massive war Dhritarashtra splits the kingdom between the Pandava and the Kauruvas. The Pandava turn their kingdom into a really great one, and the eldest Pandava basically gets to be emperor. This pissess off the 100 Kauruvas, so they come up with a plot. The eldest Pandava loves gambling and also can't disobey a direct order from the Regen Dhritarashtra, so they pretend they're going to have a friendly game and get Regent Dhritarashtra to order this guy to play dice with them. But they've got magic dice so he loses every roll, and eventually loses his kingdom and then himself... and then they make him lose Draupadi (fire woman) and start trying to disrobe her, dragging her about by the hair. This is seen as a step too far, and basically it ends with the Kauruvas having their kingdom restored on the proviso they do 13 years of exile first.
After 13 years the Kauruvas go "no, we're not giving it back on a technicality and also we don't want to". This eventually leads to a great war, in which basically every kingdom has to participate in. There are so many different groups involved in this (all the Kauruvas also had other sons) and Iravan is briefly mentioned as having brought along some armies from an allied kingdom and then also a load of the Naga snake people to fight. Then on the 8th day of this war, Iravan gets into battle with Alumbusha, who's a sort of demon-vampire-warlock. They end up having to have a magic battle, but eventually Alumbusha makes himself look like Garuda, a sort of bird-man-god that Vishnu rides and is simultaneously "king of the birds" and "enemy to every serpent" (and very specifically the nemesis of the nagas). This throws off Iravan enough that either his head gets chopped off or his body gets chopped into pieces.
If anyone's curious, the Pandava win a pyrric victory through killing all 100 Kauruvas and most of their armies, but the son of the martial arts teacher (that that one king made fire-children for) finishes off all their blood lines after the war. The only real comeback is that the final part of the bloodline is an unborn baby boy, so when this guy uses a Holy Hand Grenade to force a miscarraige, Krishna undoes it and curses him for trying that. The book ends with the sole remaining branch of the Pandava. The Kuru Kingdom was a real historical kingdom and in many ways this may be a mytholigised explanation for the downfall of the original warrior-king class (Kshatriya) as leaders, who likely represented the original Indo-Aryan chieftan structure, and the ascendance of the Brahmin Priestly caste as leaders (because by the end of the saga the Kshatriya are basically all dead because they strayed from the path of rightouesness).
The thing to bear in mind here is that this epic poem was originally composed in Sanskrit and shared orally so a lot of changes crept in. Especially when it interfaced with the Dravidian folk religions in Southern India. For reference here are some Tamil statues
A belief that was held by these peoples was that you could offer some sort of sacrifice up to Korravai, their locally venerated war goddess, as a way of ensuring victory. And they codified it. So there's several words they use, like நவகண்டம் (Navakandam) - "nine cuts", wherein nine veins around the body would be slashed, or அரிகண்டம் (Arikandam), "throat cutting" wherein you'd cut your own throat or offer up your throat to be cut. There's also களப்பலி (Kalappali) "battlefield sacrifice" which could carry the meaning of going on a suicide mission as on offering, or literally sacrificing yourself on the battlefield. These statues typically memorialise people who did it. You'd need to use the Tamil script to google it, because most English-language sites will insist this is metaphorical or only referenced in hagiography (and I've yet to find a good copy of Alf Hiltebeitel's out-of-print anthropological works on it).
Anyway, in Tamil retellings of the myth, the astronomers foretold that the Pandava would definitely lose the war unless they made a human sacrifice to Kali on the night of the full moon. The sacrifice had to possess the 32 signs of a great man (lifted from Brahamnism/Buddhism) but the only people about who possessed those were Krishna, Arjuna (Aravan's father, the great archer) and Aravan. They couldn't sacrifice Krishna because Krishna was a manfiestation of Vishnu and you can't sacrifice a mortal manifestation of Vishnu to Kali, that would just be crazy. Arjuna was too strategically important. So Aravan volunteered himself as sacrifice, on three conditions: 1. He got to get married before he sacrificed himself, 2. He got to die a heroic death in battle and 3. He'd get to see the outcome of the war.
With regards to marriage, this was alternatively because if he died unmarried he wouldn't receive full death rites and "dharmic end"... or because he wanted to get laid. However, no woman would marry Aravan because she'd get stuck as a widow. So instead Krishna transformed himself into a beautiful woman, Mohini. They got married, and the next day Aravan went to Kali's temple and either beheaded himself or cut himself into 32 pieces, on for each of his great signs, and Mohini went through all the mourning rites of a widow before turning back into Krishna and carrying on with the war. In terms of the second "boon", obviously at this point he was already dead, but his body magically knitted back together so he could go off and fight in the war and die a heroic death on the battlefield. And the third boon? Well, then his head carried on living and got to watch the rest of the war, and depending on who you ask it even got into an argument about the outcome and thrown in a river, where it eventually turned into a child that goes around killing demons or something. Veneration of Aravan often involves worshipping his decapitated head, putting the decapitated head on a clay body and then smashing it up, and in some cases the previously mentioned ritual where the hijra (usually referred to here as aravanis/alis) all get married to Aravan, do weird sex stuff, and then go into a period of mourning when he "dies".
Because there's not really a central religious text outside of the Vedas and there's no formal head of the faith, it's not really possible to say "your version is heretical". The three largest sects all disagree about who's the supreme leader, besides agreeing it's not Brahma (Vaishnavism - Vishnu made the universe and all the other Gods, Shaivism - actually it's Shiva who did that, Shaktism - actually it's the Goddess Shakti) and each sect is made of subsects that disagree about various things... but they're still pretty removed from these forms of worship that will notionally lump themselves in under the umbrella of Hinduism and sometimes influence "Vedic" Hinduism. There does seem to be attempts to crack down on the stuff that's seen to vary massively from the "mainstream" forms of Hinduism. Honestly I find folk religion like this fascinating, the closest comparison point to some of these sort of Gramadevata would be like the Lares of Ancient Rome.
Here's a bonus image I found
This probably depicts the severed head of Aravan alongside the blue Krishna-Mohini hermaphrodite figure, both laid at the feet of a Mariamman (a Tamil goddess that they sub in for Kali). I'm beginning to understand why the first reaction most Europeans had upon reaching Southern India was "oh my God they're all worshiping demons"
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