Sunday 3 January 2010

Indian myth : Meena ( Meenakshi )

Meenakshi is, in the Hinduism, princess-goddess . A legend says that she was born with eyes in the shape of fish, a light smell of fish and a third breast. All these perticuliarities must disappear the day of her meeting with her future husband. She was very good warrior and very aggressive.
After the death of the king, her father, she ruled the kingdom , conquering the "whole world" until the day when, reached in front of Shiva, in Himalaya, she lost her third breast and the other perticularities. So she married Shiva then, from this day she was invaded by shyness and by a quite feminine reserve.
Now, she is guardian of Madurai in South India, where a temple is dedicated to her and where a grand festival celebrates every year her marriage.

2 comments:

  1. I can see that your myths in India are very catching and pointful!you have a wide variety of myths...I really love indian myths!

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