#svarbhanu

The Final Days Illustrator: Fang Xinyu

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Years ago before I even knew about Rahu or Hindu Gods, I had many strange and what seemed like past life dreams. At least one of those dreams I feel may relate to Rahu. This is going to be long, so bear with me, lol. When I dove deep into researching Rahu's past as Svarbhanu when he lived in one of the Hell or Underworld Dimensions, only a daughter is mentioned as being related to him but no wife. I believe I may know why that is, if this dream is to be correct. In this dream I was considered a "peasant", and I was one of the cleaning women in a castle that Svarbhanu lived in. I was also human. There were other humans there but it seems like we were a minority. The rest of the people I knew looked like your typical demons pictured above. Svarbhanu looked similar to this but his skin was red and his hair was black. There was a celebration that was happening and I saw Svarbhanu sitting up high on a platform and women were coming up to him. I saw one of the women go up to him and she took off her cloths but he looked at her and waved his hand to dismiss her away. She put her cloths back on and went back to dancing and celebrating. I asked another cleaning lady that was with me what was going on and why women were doing that. She said that it was customary on the day that a Prince reaches the age of manhood that there was to be a huge celebration and part of that celebration involves women offering themselves sexually to the prince. That was such a strange custom to me, but I suppose that's how demons were. They are very open minded about sex and don't make such a big deal out of it like we humans do. We were pretty close to the platform at that point and I looked up at Svarbhanu. He looked down at me and we locked eyes. Something in the exchange happened as if there was an immediate attraction. But I looked away. There was no way in literal hell I was going to go up there, take off my cloths and offer myself, lol. Later that night after all of the partying was done, one of the cleaning ladies told me, "Can you believe it, the prince rejected all of the women who offered themselves to him? Such a strange thing for a prince to do." I was taken aback and realized that he was different and definitely not like other men or demons. I thought about us locking eyes. Was he only interested in me? I took a leap of faith and went to his room (knowing where it was, since I worked in the castle). I opened his door and he was lying on his bed, still awake and clothed. When he saw me, he seemed a little excited and surprised. I walked up to his bedside and took off my dress to offer myself to him. He came up to me, with passion in his eyes and we made love that night. It didn't take long for me to become pregnant. Svarbhanu and I were very much in love and I even befriended much of the staff working for the King. They even came to respect me and would come to me for advice.  This very much outraged the King. Not only was Svarbhanu, his first born son and first in line for King, shacking up with a human peasant that he also knocked up, but his staff was coming to me for advice for things too. This embarrassed him very much and hurt his pride. He arranged to have me assassinated. I was very far along in my pregnancy when I was stabbed and died. Even though Svarbhanu was with me, neither of this saw it coming as some random man just approached me and stabbed me. I don't think Svarbhanu ever knew of his father's plot to kill me but I think our child still survived but I woke up after I died. Rahu is also known to have not been distracted by Vishnu when he turned himself into a beautiful woman to get the other demons/asuras in line and to not fight over the elixir of immortality that they had helped churned up. Vishnu betrayed the Asuras by having them at the back of the line. Svarbhanu did not see this as fair and disguised himself as a luminary (like the moon or Sun) and was able to partially drink the elixir before it was pointed out by the Sun and Moon that he was a shapeshifting Asura. He was beheaded on the spot, but his head and body remained alive and known from that point on as Rahu (head) and Ketu (body). And that is why he causes solar and lunar eclipses, being that the Sun and Moon are his enemies for ratting him out. Rahu also likes foreigners. I was a foreigner in that land and was unfamiliar with demons and their customs, but that's one of the things he liked about me. I was different and so was he and that's one of the things I liked about him as well.

Horror Illustrator: Lordigan (Pedro Sena)