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Tales of the Gods

The River That Got Lost in His Hair

She came down meaning to sweep the god off his mountain. She spent the next several years lost somewhere in his hair.

Bhagiratha had already won. That was the problem.

He had stood on one leg through the seasons, until the celestial river agreed to come down and release the ash of his sixty thousand ancestors.

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