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Festivals
There was nothing. Not dark, not empty, nothing. And then somebody smiled.
Start with her name, because her name is the whole story.
Ku, little. Ushma, warmth. Anda, egg.
Kushmanda: the little warm egg. She is named after the thing she is said to have made.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.