![]() ![]() When that did not happen, she immolated herself in in a fire born of righteous anger. She stormed into her father’s sacrifice, demanding that her husband be acknowledged. Sati was incensed, believing that her husband had been humiliated. He invited everyone that he could, his many sons-in-law were given pride of place. One day, Daksha started preparations for a massive and magnificent sacrifice. Sati, clearly a determined and strong-willed woman, decided to marry Siva anyway. Siva’s followers consisted of ghouls and goblins and he spent his time in cremation grounds covered with ash. ![]() Sati wanted to marry Siva but Daksha was not pleased because he considered Siva an outsider - wild, dirty, ill-mannered and with all the wrong friends. In its most generic version, the myth goes like this: Sati was one of the daughters of Daksha, himself a son of Brahma. On the contrary, it’s about a married woman’s anger and frustration. The myth itself has nothing to do with a husband’s pyre, even less to do with a widow. ![]() The myth of Sati and Siva is one that lurks on the margins of our imaginations in this century, primarily because somewhere in the past, it became the support story for sati, the practice by which a woman, ostensibly of her own free will, burns herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre. ![]()
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