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Tales of the Gods
Beauty had achieved nothing and the gods’ scheme had got a deity killed. So she took off her ornaments and went up the mountain.
The gods' plan was to have Shiva shot. It failed badly. Then a young woman went up a mountain and did it properly.
The situation was this. Sati had died at her father's sacrifice. And Shiva had gone into a grief that took him out of the world entirely.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.