I DiagressMyths, Jyotish & found texts
Mythos
कथा · ग्रह · प्रश्न
Old gods, nine Grahas and a found text nobody can quite place. Stories that end in a question rather than an answer.
↓ Step into the circleEvery myth is a question in costume.
Some take these stories at face value, as tales to be enthralled by or as prescriptions for life. Here we read them for the layers underneath: what a ten-headed king says about ego, what a stolen sip of Amrut says about desire, and why a science of the sky is held to a yardstick no other science is.
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Old stories · new questions
Myths & Meanings
Ravan and the nine Grahas, Rahu's stolen sip of Amrut, the rebel who wrote the rules of marriage, and a boy at Death's door. Fables we grew up with, read again for what lies underneath.
No. 01Dashagriva
Ravan, the nine Grahas, and the one who stepped outside the circle.
No. 02Rahu: The Descent into Chaos
Swarbhanu, the stolen Amrut, and a head that can never be full.
No. 03Karma Is Not Justice
A ledger that never closes in one life, and a wheel that keeps turning.
No. 04Dance of Marriage
Fire, seven rounds, and Shvetaketu, the rebel who wrote the rules of marriage.
No. 05Nachiketa
A boy waits three days at Death's door, and Yama answers him with another seeker's story.
Four almanac leaves · read in order
The Jyotish Series
What Jyotish is, what it is not, and why we judge it by a different yardstick. Twelve Rashis, twenty-seven Nakshatras, one frightened word (Manglik) and the minute a chart begins.
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Part IBasics of Astrology
Why twelve signs and not eleven? Where the Nakshatras, the chart and the days of the week come from.
Part IIAccountability
The scientist gets a long rope; the Jyotishi gets a short one. Why we measure them with two different yardsticks.
Part IIIManglik Yog
Mangal means auspicious. So why does Mangal Dosh frighten so many families at marriage time?
Part IVBirth Time Rectification
A chart is only as good as the minute it starts from. And who, in a busy labour room, keeps the time?
Each part builds on the one before it. Begin with the basics; end with the minute a chart begins.
Leaves from a found text · read in order
Karshanya
Abstract mythology told as a found text: a burning city, a dying king, a forest that watches, and a court where a son learns what his father truly wants.
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Leaf IShimmering Shadows
The night the great King Ndra fell, and the words he died with.
Leaf IIA Neither Nor Desire
Uhan leads twelve baguls into Aranya after Mskar, and hears of a guardian that is neither man nor woman.
Leaf IIIBetrayal’s Strike
In the court of the last free Gan Pati, a son learns what his father truly wants.
The leaves were found in this order. More are still being deciphered.
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