Indian Epics

So for this week I decided it would be a good idea to do a story planning post so I could get a few thoughts together. I really want to continue the epic of the preacher. I now have a pretty good backstory and a solid intermediate story but now I need to begin creating stories of his travels. Maybe he should make his way out toward California. I think that could work but the hardest part now is find a story from the Mahabharata to use as a base story to manipulate. This is partly also why I decided to do a story planning post too, so this way I will be able to have all the stories from the Mahabharata at my disposal. I do not think that this next story should be one with a battle in it. I think instead it should be about the preachers tough travels across the desert to the California border. Or maybe across the Rocky Mountain range. Now what story could be one that would work with this? Nevada's Desert For this first section of the Mahabharata I can think of one story where th...

Kaliya I continued my reading notes assignment for the week as listening to the epified videos. Much like part A I enjoyed how the narrators are able to put all the characters together and make sense of what all is going on in a great manner. I really like being able to hear the pronunciation as well. When I read the stories sometimes I wondering if I am even close to getting the names and such right. I particularly liked the episode "The Magic Potion". First because the evil plan that Théoden had was shown to not be able to work. It also contains a cool new place that was underwater much like Atlantis but home to serpents instead. That is just really cool! Bibliography Epified TV (India). " The Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution" 2015-2016

Epified I chose to do this weeks reading, and probably upcoming weeks as well, as a video of the Mahabharata. For the first part of the video's, part A, I really liked how they simplified each story and really emphasized what we needed to know for the future of the epic. Also, because this is the beginning of the epic it really lays base for everything that is to come. Listening to this story in a form of a movie really helps to understand who all the characters in this epic are and how they interact with one another. This is especially nice because for me there are a lot of characters in the epic and they can become confusing to me. It was nice to have illustrations for each part of the story as well. It was cool to watch them being drawn while listening to the story. I really like the seventh episode because it shows how love can really prevail. The princess bride decided to blind herself for life to marry the blind king. That is crazy to me and really shows how much she want...