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Tales of the Gods
Her name means the one who cools. She was born from the cool ashes of a sacrificial fire - a strange origin for a goddess whose whole business is fever.
Her name means the one who cools.
She was born, they say, from the cool ashes left behind by a sacrificial fire.
Which is a strange origin for a goddess whose worship is about nothing but heat. Fever, and the diseases that bring it.
Sitala arrived at Indra's own celestial court, travelling in the company of Jvarasura - a three-headed demon who is fever itself.
And she was insulted there.
Badly enough to wound her. And by gods who did not immediately understand what they had just done.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.