In the readings assigned for week four, I couldn’t help but notice the reoccurring themes of betrayal of the female gender. Starting with the myth of Sedna, the Sea Goddess of the Innuit. Even though the logic behind the creation of a sea goddess and its creatures out of two cold murders committed by the same man who is the father of Sedna doesn’t make that much sense to me or why she would help men after being betrayed and lied to by the two most important ones in her human life. At least she had sort of a happy ending with the help of shamans combing and braiding her hair to appease her. I would also like to add a thought about this story, Sedna’s father threw her off the boat due to thinking the birds wanted her, but let’s be real, the birds were seeking the father’s blood. This could be a representation of the male gender in history always assuming that when consequences for their actions are catching up or something goes wrong it’s because women had something to do with it, which has resulted in many women having the same fate as Sedna (except turning into a sea goddess).

In the story of Kaliya the Snake, he is introduced as an inferior power of Krishna who is filled with rage, why is this? Further into the story, it is revealed that Kaliya resides in a section of a river that is causing diseases to those that need water after being defeated by Krishna and kicked out of his anterior residence, the ocean. After another humiliating defeat to Krishna, Kaliya and his wives beg for his life, “The race of snakes into which I was born is a cruel one; this is its proper nature. But I am not at fault in this matter, Acyuta, for it is you who pour forth and absorb the whole world; classes, forms, and natures have all been assigned by you, the creator…” (Bacchilega & Alohalani 8) Kaliya never had a chance to be portrayed in a good light, since his creation he was doomed to be seen as a monster, because of Krishna’s decision, to me this is another form of betrayal.