From Barbelith

Barbelith talks about issue 1 here (http://www.barbelith.com/topic/20227), issue 2 here (http://www.barbelith.com/topic/20523), and....

What happens?

Background & Related texts

The Ramayana (http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/) would be one obvious source, sort of fused with Jack Kirby's New Gods.

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A couple of the visuals seem to take stabs at/mickey out of Bollywood, but the
characters seem almost directly stolen from East is East (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166175/). 
Which, if you haven't seen it, is sort of like Fiddler on the Roof in a 1970s chip
shop, without the musical numbers and with spousal abuse. And was written by a Pakistani
playwright/screenwriter, for what it's worth. 
And by "characters" I mean all the characters -- the ones who aren't gods, anyway. And
the whole arranged-marriage-angst situation, too. 

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