Reading Notes: Epified Krishna, Part A
For this week's reading I chose to watch the Epified Krishna videos! I love the style of these videos, the art is so good and having the narrator makes the stories so interesting.
I wanted to take some notes on just Krishna as a whole. He is the 8th avatar of Vishnu. He is destined to slay the king Kamsa, and was born to Kamsa's sister. Kamsa killed all seven of their children and planned to kill Krishna, but wasn't able as he was hidden away. Krishna was raised by someone else in a little village, and began to show signs of his divine power even as a child.
For this weeks storytelling, I might want to retell the story of Krishna's birth and his being switched with the other child. I feel like the emotions there must have been so heavy for his parents, and I would love to explore that. I wouldn't change anything too much, just give more details.
The basic plot is that he was born at night, and just after his birth, when the guards were going to tell the king, they and everyone else in the town (kingdom?) fell into a deep sleep and the father heard a voice telling him to go outside, and he continued hearing the voice leading him through a river and to a village.
He was told to lay Krishna next to another mother who had given birth to a baby girl, and took the baby girl back with him, leaving Krishna in the village. He was devastated, but felt peace at the knowledge that he would be safe.
Bibliography: Epified Krishna Part A
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