114A-Indian Stories: Calamity

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Three lifetimes, two guardians, one objective: get back home. In our long overdue first foray into stories from India, it's the story of Jaya and Vijaya, the gatekeepers to Vishnu's celestial abode and the fateful decision they made one day that would change everything. It's the story of a demon that, reborn across generations and millennia, battles heroes that are born for the fight. The creature this week is an angry bird who is less about wrecking towers and more about exsanguinating the corpses of his enemies. -- Sponsors: Spotify is a really great app to find not only the best music, but now the best podcasts. Check out us and others (but mostly us) on Spotify today: http://spotify.mythpodcast.com -- Music: "Silent Dreams" by Ketsa "Moon Love" by Ketsa "Our Names Engraved" by Blue Dot Sessions "Sanctuary" by Podington Bear "Seventh Hill" by Podington Bear "Ervira" by Blue Dot Sessions "4 Point Path" by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	This week, on Myths and Legends, it's our first foray in the stories from India, where
0:04.6	you'll learn that being a bouncer is either the best or worst job in the universe, depending
0:10.3	on if you let that group of kids in.
0:12.4	Also, you'll learn a shortcut to superpowers.
0:15.4	Stop working out or moving at all, and don't drink water for 100 years.
0:20.0	The creature this week isn't Angry Bird, who is slightly more intense than the ones
0:24.0	from the game, mainly because he wants to gorge himself on his enemy's blood.
0:34.0	This is Myths and Legends, episode 114a, calamity.
0:40.4	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:46.7	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:51.7	These are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth the listen.
0:56.1	So yeah, we're finally here.
0:57.9	We are finally covering a story from India.
1:00.4	I know I say this all the time, but there is no one version of these stories.
1:05.3	Parts of them are legends, parts of them are religious stories, and parts of them are
1:08.8	folklore.
1:09.8	I tried his best I could to make it a coherent story, but know that these stories are wildly
1:14.5	different depending on who's telling them.
1:16.6	India and South Asian in general are wonderfully diverse and interesting, so they're multiple
1:20.7	different, equally valid versions of these stories.
1:23.6	I picked what appeared to be the most common tellings, so please forgive any inaccuracies.
1:29.1	I know they'll be there.
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