{"id":495,"date":"2011-10-10T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T12:50:08","slug":"diwali-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Diwali tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Diwali<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; the festival of lights &#8211; is on<em> October 26th<\/em> this year. &nbsp;<em><strong>Diwali<\/strong><\/em> celebrates the return of Rama and Sita, after their exile in the forest, and Sita&#8217;s kidnap by Ravana the Demon King. &nbsp;As Rama and Sita walk across India, people light little lamps, diyas, and place them outside their houses, to light the path and lead them home.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rama-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rama-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-498\"\/><\/a><figcaption>&#8216;path of diyas&#8217; &#8211; Rama and Sita, Path of Flames &#8211; Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Find out how Ravana captures Sita, by listening to<strong> &#8216;The Magic Circle&#8217;<\/strong> a chapter from my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franceslincoln.com\/en\/C\/1\/Book\/2020\/Rama_and_Sita_-_Path_of_Flames.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Rama and Sita &#8211; Path of flames&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rama-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rama-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-496\"\/><\/a><figcaption>&#8216;Food for a hungry man&#8217; &#8211; Rama and Sita, Path of Flames &#8211; Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallypommeclayton.com\/sounds\/the_magik_circle.mp3\">Audio clip-The Magic Circle from &#8220;Rama and Sita path of Flames&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rama-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rama-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497\"\/><\/a><figcaption>&#8216;You will be my Queen&#8217;- Rama and Sita Path of Flames &#8211; Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmakeandbelieve.uk%2F%3Fp%3D495&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,94],"tags":[230,228,229,91,28,3,5,4,12,85,6,7,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}