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Week 12 Story: Demon of a Hundred Faces

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Portfolio Link There was a blind King, who had a wife. This wife was so dedicated to her husband, that she thought it was only fair, if she yielded her sight for the rest of her life. The kingdom was happy for the two, because it had been a very long time since the kingdom had, had a King and Queen. The King had two brothers, and they worked for their brother in different ways. When it came to Pandu, who had two wives he tended to the Kings army. Pandu was a little upset with the King because he wanted the thrown, but the oldest son always gets to be king first. Pandu had to stay away from the kingdom for when he had went away for awhile with his two wives, he made a mistake that got him cursed for eternity. Ashamed of this, Pandu refused to go back. They stayed out there and during this time had five sons. The Queen had heard the news that Pandu now had five sons and that raised fear between the King and Queen, they knew they needed to have a son very soon so Pandu's sons wou...

Reading Notes: Epified Mahabharata, Part B

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- Gounti (one of Pandu's wives) had been adopted by a king everyone feared but her. - When she had to leave he whispered a gift into her ear to be able to call upon any God. - She called out to the son, and was given a baby. She could not keep this baby so she put him in a basket and down the river he went. - Pandu and his wives go out to the woods to have quality time. - During a hunt of Pandu's he hits a couple making love in a bush and becomes cursed, a curse that will kill him if he becomes intimate with a woman. - Gounti tells Pandu of her secret to udder the word that will bring a God and a son for her to have. - Gounti gives Pandu 5 sons. - One day Pandu cracks and forces himself om Marguerite and dies. When he is cremated Marge joins him. - Gounti cannot stand to be in there anymore and takes her 5 sons, and leaves. - The blind wife and King are trying to have a 100 sons. - When the blind wife gives birth its just a huge lump of flesh. - The king puts them in...

Reading Notes: Epified Mahabharata, Part A

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- A king marries a water goddess but can never question her. - They live happily until they have a child and she drowns it, and does this with the next 6. - The king does not say anything until the 8th son. She explains and leaves him and takes their last son. - The kings long lost son returns and he is mighty, - The king brings back his son to show everyone what mighty prince they have. - The king falls in love with a fishermans daughter and asks to marry her but she said no because her sons would never be kings because of his son that he already has. - The king returns heart broken and it is noticeable so the son decides to go back down and reason with the fishermans daughter. - The fishermen still refuses to allow it because the kings son could have children in the future. - The kings son makes an oath to never marry and have kings, he take the women to his father. - The father feels like his kingdom is doomed and lets his son decide his faith, giving him a boon. - The kin...