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Festivals
A demon believed his fortress was unbreakable and his cruelty without consequence. He had not accounted for the woman who would pick up a bow when the man she loved fell.
Narakasura was born of Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth herself. The Bhagavata Purana ties his birth to Vishnu's Varaha form, the boar Vishnu took to lift the earth in an age before this one.
The tellings differ on his lineage. They agree entirely on what he became. He grew into a demon of immense power, and he used it to seize the three worlds and to grind them down. Gods and men alike suffered under him.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.