Week 10 Reading Diary D: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued

(An image of Brahma with his four heads.) I am a bit sad that I am almost finished with the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art. The first video this week featured the Ramayana. It was pretty cool to see how things that we have read in class appear throughout other works. I know this happens all the time, but I was impressed with how quickly you notice things like this in this class.It's a bit weird because the narrator refers to Rama as Ram. This...

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Week 10 Reading Diary C: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued

(Balarama) This week's "reading" is a continuation of the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued. I am on part C. This week I decided to try something new and write the most interesting things that I learned in the videos. First thing that comes to mind is the merged form of Shiva and Vishnu: Hari-Hara. It's kind of crazy because these forms, even though they are merged, represent complete opposites of each other. In my mind I pictured...

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Week 9 Tech Tip: Weather Gadget

This week I added a weather gadget to my blog. Follow instructions here and add one to your blog t...

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Week 9: Review

My favorite post from this week came from Sunday, March 27. I was a bit late to hop on the Star Wars fan train, but boy have I turned into a big one. Kudos to my boyfriend, I bet he is proud. Anyway, this was was about how to Yodify Your Language. It is brilliant and I had to share it. I hope you get as much joy out of this infographic as I do....

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Week 9 Reading Diary B: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art Continued

(Shiva depicted as the destroyer) There are three videos for this section, but I think I will only embed one in this post. I was excited about these videos because it included Shiva. I watched the Shiva videos last semester and it was fun to watch them again and get a new perspective on it. One of the most interesting things that I picked up from these videos is how God is embodied in three human couples for Hindus. Those three couples are: Brahma and Saraswati, Vishu and Lakshmi, Shiva and Shakti....

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Week 9 Reading Diary A: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art

(A depiction of Narayana) While I did not technically "read" this week, I did watch some youtube videos about the Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art.  I will include the videos below because they are super fun and interesting. I was drawn to them last semester while in Myth and Folklore. One was posted in the announcements and I watched quite a few then. I love how in the narrator explains why the gods and goddesses in Hindu are...

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Week 8: Blog Ideas

Originally, I had a completely different layout for my blog. I scrapped it for something more simple, more me. I am always open to a new look or a redesign. I feel there is only so much I can edit in this HTML because I didn't write the whole thing :P There are three blogs that had small features that stood out to me. Morgan's and Thomas' location of the labels really changed the blog. One simple feature changed everything about how the blog looks and the feel it gives. To me, Morgan's emphasized the use of labels for navigation and Thomas'...

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Week 8: Time

I have been pretty terrible at keeping the schedule I created at the beginning of the semester. I find myself spending time on other activities when I should be doing homework. I haven't been too terrible at doing homework for this class or other classes. I managed to get them done on time, but I know I can be doing better. I had a perfect time schedule set up at the start of the semester, I just really need to follow it. The second half of the...

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Week 7: Review

This week's favorite post comes from Thursday, March 3. I love that this cat looks so serious with a newspaper. It's both informative and funny. Here it is below in case anyone missed it: ...

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Week 7: Reading Diary Extra Credit: Mahabharata Cont.

(Bisma on the bed of arrows) I AM FINALLY DONE WITH PART D!!!!! AND THE MAHABHARATA!! I just had to share my joy with everyone. As usual, I read the public domain and below are two of my favorite stories from part D. The Pandavas and Bhishma: I thought that this was super noble of Bhishma to tell others how to rule after his death. I also found it interesting that he was able to choose when he died and chose now. When reading this, I felt like...

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Week 9 Storytelling: Oh, Arjuna

(Ulupi and Arjuna chilling on a cliff) I am stuck in these stupid woods all by myself. You may be asking yourself why. Why are you in these woods alone, Arjuna? How did you end up here? Well, when you’re married to a woman with five husbands, things can get tricky. We had rules regarding living arrangements and… I may have broken the rules. Who cares though?! I caught the robbers. I broke the rules for a good cause! No one else saw...

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Week 7: Reading Diary B: Mahabharata Cont.

(Krishna found on Wikipedia.) Onto part C!!! Will do part D as extra credit. Much to my enjoyment, there were more Arjuna stories.  One again, I am reading the Public Domain version of the Mahabharata. Arjuna and Shiva: Arjuna is forever going out on adventures by himself. Im starting to think its so he can get as many wives as possible :P The worst thing that kept happening while reading this story is that I kept thinking of that show,...

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