"The Gods must be crazy"

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A boy God steals butter. And grows up to have 16,000 lovers.
A Goddess keeps her husband out of her home while she bathes.
A God morphs into a beautiful woman. And has a virtual son.
A monkey God sets fire to a whole city.
An uncle kills six nephews.
The eighth nephew kills the uncle.
Cousins cheat at the game of dice.
Son incarcerates father.
A teacher fights against his own students.

OMG...how do I answer the boys? How do I soothe their concerns? Calm their frayed nerves? Good guys and bad guys, of course. But the rest of the stuff, the subtle ones?

We are particularly struggling with Parvathy's story and the birth of Ganesha.

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The boys: Shiva only wanted to enter his own house. That's not asking for too much.
Me: Yeah, but Parvathy also has a right to privacy.
The kids: Gosh amma, that does not mean she can unleash all those sword eating Shakthis on Shiva's hordes...
Me: Hallo....how could Shiva even think of attacking a little boy in the first place? He was only obeying his mother's orders.
The kids: But the boy had Parvathy on his side.
Me: But Shiva cheated...how could he take Vishnu's help and kill the boy from behind?
The kids: Why not?

It's a never ending argument.....the lone ranger fighting for Parvathy and three little soldiers defending Shiva. Finally, pipes little Nandan...

“But the poor elephant...how can he live if they cut off his head for Ganesha?”

Silence.

Comments

  1. very, very impressive job! i liked the video the most!

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  2. Interesting. Curiosity of kids often lets us know how incompetent we are with all our wisdom and degrees, don t they ?

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  3. So we can trace feminism to the days of Parvaty! good! Respect the privacy of your spouse!

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  4. Sohan, thank you mone:) you guys are my inspiration!

    Dash, great to have you visit! yes, you are right, their questions and comments often leave us amazed and stumped:(

    Yiay amma....i like the spirit!!!

    RK, thank you and thanks for stopping by..

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  5. Ganga, how I wish you had a daughter!!!
    :) :)

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  6. Rekz, I wish...amma says i wished too hard :)

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  7. LOL! That was funny, and scary too. Is this how logically kids think these days? How do we ever ever answer them ?!

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  8. I suppose this is what is called 'critical' reading :)

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  9. Hey very true! I have had a tough time explaining to S the intricacies involving krishna's birth. I kind of glided over the nephew killing events. S still hasn't got a definite idea of what it is.

    We can explain off most of our gruesome tales as symbolism. How can we ever make our children understand that??

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  10. heh heh...am so looking forward to this...and i will have two sets of strange tales to tell him ;)

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  11. Absolutely, Roopz!

    Arch, I can almost imagine you adding even more twists to the tales and junjun asking some fabulously creative questions! look forward to those posts :)

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