Story Week 13: The Turtle Who Talked Too Much

Turtles (image source from Wikipedia)

There was once a Turtle that lived up on the foot of a hill. There was two wild geese looking for food up around the hill and they found a turtle. This Turtle was a friendly and very talkative animal. The next day, the Geese visited the turtle again and soon became great friends.

One day, the Geese told the turtle they had a beautiful home far away and they were leaving tomorrow. They asked the turtle if he wanted to come along with them, to their home. The turtle explained, "How would I even get there? I can't even fly!"

The Geese responded back saying, "Oh, we will take you but you cannot talk this whole journey."
The turtle thought about it and agreed that he would go with them and not talk the whole way.

So the following day, the Geese came back with a stick and said, "You have to bite down the stick in the middle and do not say one word until we are home."

The Geese and the turtle were up flying and they saw so many different beautiful sceneries from the sky. Twenty minutes had passed by, they came by a village. There were kids playing around and spotted the Geese and Turtle. The kids laughed at the turtle because it was flying. They got a closer look and saw the Turtle gripping on a stick! They started laughing a little harder because the Turtle was not really flying, but biting down on a stick.

The turtle looked down and said "At least my friends can carry me to fly with them! What is your problem?"

Then turtle fell off the stick. R.I.P.

Author's Note: I rewrote the story, The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking. I did not change anything from the original story but wrote it in my own words. This Turtle should would not stop talking or be so defensive that he died. It was immature of him to want to fight back and care what the kids thought of him, and he suffered the consequences.

Ellen C. Babbitt, The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking, Link

Reading Notes: PDE - Sati and Shiva

Shiva Mourns Sati (image source from Wikipedia)

In this reading, it talked about Sati being a consort for Shiva. Sati is the goddess Uma and the daughter of Daksha. When Shiva first saw Sati, he was impressed by her devotional practices and he wanted to marry her, but Daksha refused. Her father did not want Shiva to marry his daughter and always scorned at him. But Sati wanted to be with Shiva so she left riding on Nandi. Time went by, Daksha still continued on to insult Shiva. He just hated him so much and could not bear his daughter being with Shiva.

Sati decided to take matters in her own hands. She decided to cast herself into the fire and died. She wanted to be reborn as a daughter for a father that was worthy of her. When she casted herself, a huge fight came between Shiva's attendants and the demons loyal to Daksha. Shiva's attendants retreated to Mount Kailash to inform Shiva what had happened. Shiva was so furious that he knew he had to take matters in his own hand.

Shiva pulled out a single clump of his hair and created Virabhadra and Mahakali to attack Daksha.

Another fight broke out when Indra helped defend Daksha from Virabhadra and Mahakali. Vishnu also attacked Virabhadra but couldn't stop him. Virabhadra ended up tearing Daksha's head off and threw it in the sacrificial fire. Vishnua and Brahma convinced Shiva to revive Daksha to complete the sacrifice, but he would have a head of a goat.

Meanwhile, Sati was reborn as Parvati so she can be Shiva's consort again.

Kamala Chandrakant, Sati and Shiva, Link