In Vedic religion, Varuna (Sanskrit varuṇa वरुण, also written Waruna) is a god of the sky, of water and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld. He is the most prominent Asura in the Rigveda, and lord of the heavens and the earth.
In Hindu mythology, Varuna continued to be considered the god of all forms of the water element, particularly the oceans.
As chief of the Adityas, Varuna has aspects of a solar deity though, when opposed to Mitra, he is rather associated with the night, and Mitra with the daylight. As the most prominent Asura, however, he is mostly concerned with moral and societal affairs than being a deification of nature. Together with Mitra–originally 'agreement' (between tribes) personified—being master of ṛtá, he is the supreme keeper of order and god of the law. The word ṛtá, order, is also translated as "season".
Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the societal affairs including the oath, and are often twinned Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compound). Varuna is also twinned with Indra in the Rigveda, as Indra-Varuna (when both cooperate at New Year in re-establishing order ).
Plot
A woman who grows up in a country that has sharia law. She begins to protest and is arrested, thrown in prison, raped, beaten, and is scheduled to be executed. She escapes and is grabbed by a group of warriors, known as the Shadow Warriors, a group of freedom fighters, assassins, that strike down the oppressors at night, appearing and disappearing as phantoms. She is recruited by the Shadow Warriors and follows as she becomes an official assassin, and eventually, an elite warrior. When an envoy arrives from a neighboring country, the Shadow Warriors kidnap the envoy, and encounters a surprise, and is faced with a loyalty test.
Plot
Pratap, while stranded during a stormy night, meets with Varuna, and is instantly attracted to her. He proposes marriage through his family, and soon both get married. He soon notices that Varuna has some strange habits, which are compounded when he finds out that she leaves the house alone at night to go to night-clubs, and sings, dances, and drinks alcohol. When he questions Varuna, she denies ever doing any such thing. His mother thinks that Varuna is possessed, and arranges for an exorcism, which is in vain, as even Pratap is opposed to this. Then Pratap meets with Dilip, who claims to be Varuna's lover, and knows Varuna as "Peggy".
Keywords: club, drinking, party, shock, split-personality
Our home is a jagged mouth,
streaming out pleas to the dead
We are misshapen teeth
uprooting ourselves
But we could have spent our time
burying strangers instead
We would've settled in
and found out our names
But calm your heart
The dark is still the dark
We'd told our sons to wait their turns,
like eager months lined up in herds
to age our skin and stretch us out.
They never get tired of stretching us out.
We read the braille with our bare feet
It would not teach us how to see,
But we finally realized ourselves.
Varuna is counting the notches and nicks in our planks.
Do we deserve the grave,
or the table you set for the liars
and unloving husbands and wives?
They hadn't seen themselves
They couldn't have known.
But face that fact,
Every branch you cut grows back.
And we're growing into the thought
that we're cast like iron,