Week 9 Reading Diary: Battle of Gods and Demons

Gleanings from Indian Classics: Tales by Manmatha Dutt (1893). 

I really enjoyed the Battle of Gods and Demons section of this reading; it was right up my alley. It discusses the never ending struggle between the gods and demons. At first the gods proved to have the upper hand in this conflict as they cheated the demons out of their share of the ocean. This enabled them to become stronger than the demons and easily overcome them at first. Eventually the demons grew stronger and were able to steel women and children from heaven. In particular, one gods wife who was stolen resulted in the gods waging war on the demons again by meeting them on their own territory. This did not go well for the gods because some of the demons had been made invincible. The gods retreated back to heaven, but the demons followed and conquered them their scattering the gods every which way. I obviously side with the gods rather than the demons usually, but in this particular story the gods seemed to have started everything. It is very ungodly like to lie to someone else. There are a lot of things I could do to this story in order to give it my own twist. I could reverse the roles of the gods and demons because it seems more likely that the demons would do something like that. I could also tell the battles differently to make them more vivid and exciting. There are a lot of character in the story, which allows a lot of room for changing who they are and what they do.

War in Heaven Page from Wikipedia