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<\/a><\/p>\nLegend says that the Pandya king, the ruler of Madurai, rejoiced at the birth of his daughter. She had beautiful eyes, like a pair of chiral fish. So she he named her Meenakshi (Sanskrit for \u201cfish eyes\u201d).<\/h3>\nThe royal child had another physical characteristic, which the king and his wife didn\u2019t think was so hot. That was the extra nipple on her chest. Not to worry, the wise men of the court told the parents. It would fall away when she met her destined suitor.<\/h3>\nI recoiled with horror when I first heard this story. Who dreams up\u00a0a three-nippled goddess<\/a>? \u00a0Many-armed gods, each one holding a different weapon to slay evil-doers, yes. You are going for effect. Multi-headed gods who can see wat\u2019s going on in every direction. We\u2019ll roll with that. But a whole extra boob? The mind boggles.<\/h3>\nBut Hindus are not unique in the creation of a three-breasted goddess. Ancient Greeks too depicted Artemis, Goddess of \u00a0The Hunt, with multiple breasts. Followers of her Phoenician counterpart saw extra breasts\/nipples as indicators of fertility.<\/h3>\nIf something\u2019s good for divinity, it is good for characters in modern fiction as well, right? \u00a0So we have\u00a0Eccentrica Gallumbits, the\u00a0\u201cThe Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six,\u201d from\u00a0A Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide To The Galaxy<\/em>. More recently,\u00a0Total Recall<\/em>\u00a0featured\u00a0a three-breasted mutant hooker<\/a>. When asked about her third boob, the actress, Lycia Naff would tell people, \u201cI had it removed. It is in a jar on my desk.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\nDespite all these instances from popular culture, I firmly relegated the concept of extra mammaries to the realm of fantasy.\u00a0A recent article<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0BBC Future\u00a0<\/em>set me straight. Apparently, real people (both men and women) can have extra nipples\/entire breasts, or something in-between. Initially, it was thought of as evolutionary atavism: other mammals give birth to a litter of young ones,\u00a0 and have a whole row of teats to suckle them all at one go.<\/h3>\nBut, in humans these extra nipples were not just along the \u201cmilk line.\u201d Some have them in locations like the back of a thigh or other inconvenient places like the inside of an armpit. In women, the extra breast can lactate. This anatomical oddity can get cancerous too. Depending on the dimensions, people opt to have these protuberances surgically removed or treat them like mere moles.<\/h3>\nSo, what was Meenakshi\u2019s attitude towards her third breast? \u00a0We don\u2019t know. It didn\u2019t give her any special powers. It was just there as a test for her suitor, the three-eyed one.<\/h3>\nPerhaps, this extra boob did have something going for it. When friends asked the warrior princess, \u201cMeen. How did you know he was THE one?\u201d All she had to say in response was: \u201cWell. He made my third breast \u00a0go away\u2026.\u201d<\/h3>\nHere is a lovely poem on Meenakshi by\u00a0Nancy Gandhi.<\/strong><\/h3>\nMeenakshi<\/b><\/h3>\n\nI am a green goddess.
\nMy name means Fish-eye:
\nlike a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,
\nI\u2019m always watching over my children.<\/h3>\nYes, fish eat their young \u2013 I do that too.
\nI protect the city, I destroy it.
\nEven I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next.
\nIt\u2019s safest to keep me confined.
\nMy priests let me out once a year
\nfor my wedding.<\/h3>\nEach year I marry Shiva,
\nan invader from the north.
\nHe smears himself with ashes,
\nwears snakes around his neck.
\nMy parents find him disgusting,
\nwhich only increases my ardour.<\/h3>\nSoon we\u2019ll do battle, just like last year:
\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
\nthe people will celebrate our union.
\nThen they\u2019ll lock me up again.<\/h3>\nSometimes I want to be plain Meen,
\nto swim away from husband and city,
\nfrom the heavy garlands that weigh on my neck,
\nfrom the chanting priests\u2019 oil lamps and flowers,
\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
\nto lose myself in the teeming ocean,
\nget a day job, cut my hair,
\ngo shopping, sit in a bar alone,
\nand once a year, perhaps, remember.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I recoiled with horror when I first heard this story. Who dreams up\u00a0a three-nippled goddess<\/a>? \u00a0Many-armed gods, each one holding a different weapon to slay evil-doers, yes. You are going for effect. Multi-headed gods who can see wat\u2019s going on in every direction. We\u2019ll roll with that. But a whole extra boob? The mind boggles.<\/h3>\nBut Hindus are not unique in the creation of a three-breasted goddess. Ancient Greeks too depicted Artemis, Goddess of \u00a0The Hunt, with multiple breasts. Followers of her Phoenician counterpart saw extra breasts\/nipples as indicators of fertility.<\/h3>\nIf something\u2019s good for divinity, it is good for characters in modern fiction as well, right? \u00a0So we have\u00a0Eccentrica Gallumbits, the\u00a0\u201cThe Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six,\u201d from\u00a0A Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide To The Galaxy<\/em>. More recently,\u00a0Total Recall<\/em>\u00a0featured\u00a0a three-breasted mutant hooker<\/a>. When asked about her third boob, the actress, Lycia Naff would tell people, \u201cI had it removed. It is in a jar on my desk.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\nDespite all these instances from popular culture, I firmly relegated the concept of extra mammaries to the realm of fantasy.\u00a0A recent article<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0BBC Future\u00a0<\/em>set me straight. Apparently, real people (both men and women) can have extra nipples\/entire breasts, or something in-between. Initially, it was thought of as evolutionary atavism: other mammals give birth to a litter of young ones,\u00a0 and have a whole row of teats to suckle them all at one go.<\/h3>\nBut, in humans these extra nipples were not just along the \u201cmilk line.\u201d Some have them in locations like the back of a thigh or other inconvenient places like the inside of an armpit. In women, the extra breast can lactate. This anatomical oddity can get cancerous too. Depending on the dimensions, people opt to have these protuberances surgically removed or treat them like mere moles.<\/h3>\nSo, what was Meenakshi\u2019s attitude towards her third breast? \u00a0We don\u2019t know. It didn\u2019t give her any special powers. It was just there as a test for her suitor, the three-eyed one.<\/h3>\nPerhaps, this extra boob did have something going for it. When friends asked the warrior princess, \u201cMeen. How did you know he was THE one?\u201d All she had to say in response was: \u201cWell. He made my third breast \u00a0go away\u2026.\u201d<\/h3>\nHere is a lovely poem on Meenakshi by\u00a0Nancy Gandhi.<\/strong><\/h3>\nMeenakshi<\/b><\/h3>\n\nI am a green goddess.
\nMy name means Fish-eye:
\nlike a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,
\nI\u2019m always watching over my children.<\/h3>\nYes, fish eat their young \u2013 I do that too.
\nI protect the city, I destroy it.
\nEven I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next.
\nIt\u2019s safest to keep me confined.
\nMy priests let me out once a year
\nfor my wedding.<\/h3>\nEach year I marry Shiva,
\nan invader from the north.
\nHe smears himself with ashes,
\nwears snakes around his neck.
\nMy parents find him disgusting,
\nwhich only increases my ardour.<\/h3>\nSoon we\u2019ll do battle, just like last year:
\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
\nthe people will celebrate our union.
\nThen they\u2019ll lock me up again.<\/h3>\nSometimes I want to be plain Meen,
\nto swim away from husband and city,
\nfrom the heavy garlands that weigh on my neck,
\nfrom the chanting priests\u2019 oil lamps and flowers,
\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
\nto lose myself in the teeming ocean,
\nget a day job, cut my hair,
\ngo shopping, sit in a bar alone,
\nand once a year, perhaps, remember.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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If something\u2019s good for divinity, it is good for characters in modern fiction as well, right? \u00a0So we have\u00a0Eccentrica Gallumbits, the\u00a0\u201cThe Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six,\u201d from\u00a0A Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide To The Galaxy<\/em>. More recently,\u00a0Total Recall<\/em>\u00a0featured\u00a0a three-breasted mutant hooker<\/a>. When asked about her third boob, the actress, Lycia Naff would tell people, \u201cI had it removed. It is in a jar on my desk.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\nDespite all these instances from popular culture, I firmly relegated the concept of extra mammaries to the realm of fantasy.\u00a0A recent article<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0BBC Future\u00a0<\/em>set me straight. Apparently, real people (both men and women) can have extra nipples\/entire breasts, or something in-between. Initially, it was thought of as evolutionary atavism: other mammals give birth to a litter of young ones,\u00a0 and have a whole row of teats to suckle them all at one go.<\/h3>\nBut, in humans these extra nipples were not just along the \u201cmilk line.\u201d Some have them in locations like the back of a thigh or other inconvenient places like the inside of an armpit. In women, the extra breast can lactate. This anatomical oddity can get cancerous too. Depending on the dimensions, people opt to have these protuberances surgically removed or treat them like mere moles.<\/h3>\nSo, what was Meenakshi\u2019s attitude towards her third breast? \u00a0We don\u2019t know. It didn\u2019t give her any special powers. It was just there as a test for her suitor, the three-eyed one.<\/h3>\nPerhaps, this extra boob did have something going for it. When friends asked the warrior princess, \u201cMeen. How did you know he was THE one?\u201d All she had to say in response was: \u201cWell. He made my third breast \u00a0go away\u2026.\u201d<\/h3>\nHere is a lovely poem on Meenakshi by\u00a0Nancy Gandhi.<\/strong><\/h3>\nMeenakshi<\/b><\/h3>\n\nI am a green goddess.
\nMy name means Fish-eye:
\nlike a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,
\nI\u2019m always watching over my children.<\/h3>\nYes, fish eat their young \u2013 I do that too.
\nI protect the city, I destroy it.
\nEven I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next.
\nIt\u2019s safest to keep me confined.
\nMy priests let me out once a year
\nfor my wedding.<\/h3>\nEach year I marry Shiva,
\nan invader from the north.
\nHe smears himself with ashes,
\nwears snakes around his neck.
\nMy parents find him disgusting,
\nwhich only increases my ardour.<\/h3>\nSoon we\u2019ll do battle, just like last year:
\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
\nthe people will celebrate our union.
\nThen they\u2019ll lock me up again.<\/h3>\nSometimes I want to be plain Meen,
\nto swim away from husband and city,
\nfrom the heavy garlands that weigh on my neck,
\nfrom the chanting priests\u2019 oil lamps and flowers,
\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
\nto lose myself in the teeming ocean,
\nget a day job, cut my hair,
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But, in humans these extra nipples were not just along the \u201cmilk line.\u201d Some have them in locations like the back of a thigh or other inconvenient places like the inside of an armpit. In women, the extra breast can lactate. This anatomical oddity can get cancerous too. Depending on the dimensions, people opt to have these protuberances surgically removed or treat them like mere moles.<\/h3>\nSo, what was Meenakshi\u2019s attitude towards her third breast? \u00a0We don\u2019t know. It didn\u2019t give her any special powers. It was just there as a test for her suitor, the three-eyed one.<\/h3>\nPerhaps, this extra boob did have something going for it. When friends asked the warrior princess, \u201cMeen. How did you know he was THE one?\u201d All she had to say in response was: \u201cWell. He made my third breast \u00a0go away\u2026.\u201d<\/h3>\nHere is a lovely poem on Meenakshi by\u00a0Nancy Gandhi.<\/strong><\/h3>\nMeenakshi<\/b><\/h3>\n\nI am a green goddess.
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\nan invader from the north.
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Perhaps, this extra boob did have something going for it. When friends asked the warrior princess, \u201cMeen. How did you know he was THE one?\u201d All she had to say in response was: \u201cWell. He made my third breast \u00a0go away\u2026.\u201d<\/h3>\nHere is a lovely poem on Meenakshi by\u00a0Nancy Gandhi.<\/strong><\/h3>\nMeenakshi<\/b><\/h3>\n\nI am a green goddess.
\nMy name means Fish-eye:
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\nI\u2019m always watching over my children.<\/h3>\nYes, fish eat their young \u2013 I do that too.
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Meenakshi<\/b><\/h3>\n\nI am a green goddess.
\nMy name means Fish-eye:
\nlike a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,
\nI\u2019m always watching over my children.<\/h3>\nYes, fish eat their young \u2013 I do that too.
\nI protect the city, I destroy it.
\nEven I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next.
\nIt\u2019s safest to keep me confined.
\nMy priests let me out once a year
\nfor my wedding.<\/h3>\nEach year I marry Shiva,
\nan invader from the north.
\nHe smears himself with ashes,
\nwears snakes around his neck.
\nMy parents find him disgusting,
\nwhich only increases my ardour.<\/h3>\nSoon we\u2019ll do battle, just like last year:
\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
\nthe people will celebrate our union.
\nThen they\u2019ll lock me up again.<\/h3>\nSometimes I want to be plain Meen,
\nto swim away from husband and city,
\nfrom the heavy garlands that weigh on my neck,
\nfrom the chanting priests\u2019 oil lamps and flowers,
\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
\nto lose myself in the teeming ocean,
\nget a day job, cut my hair,
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I am a green goddess.
\nMy name means Fish-eye:
\nlike a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,
\nI\u2019m always watching over my children.<\/h3>\nYes, fish eat their young \u2013 I do that too.
\nI protect the city, I destroy it.
\nEven I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next.
\nIt\u2019s safest to keep me confined.
\nMy priests let me out once a year
\nfor my wedding.<\/h3>\nEach year I marry Shiva,
\nan invader from the north.
\nHe smears himself with ashes,
\nwears snakes around his neck.
\nMy parents find him disgusting,
\nwhich only increases my ardour.<\/h3>\nSoon we\u2019ll do battle, just like last year:
\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
\nthe people will celebrate our union.
\nThen they\u2019ll lock me up again.<\/h3>\nSometimes I want to be plain Meen,
\nto swim away from husband and city,
\nfrom the heavy garlands that weigh on my neck,
\nfrom the chanting priests\u2019 oil lamps and flowers,
\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
\nto lose myself in the teeming ocean,
\nget a day job, cut my hair,
\ngo shopping, sit in a bar alone,
\nand once a year, perhaps, remember.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nI protect the city, I destroy it.
\nEven I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next.
\nIt\u2019s safest to keep me confined.
\nMy priests let me out once a year
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\nan invader from the north.
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\nMy parents find him disgusting,
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\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
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\nThen they\u2019ll lock me up again.<\/h3>\nSometimes I want to be plain Meen,
\nto swim away from husband and city,
\nfrom the heavy garlands that weigh on my neck,
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\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
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\nI\u2019ll defeat him, emerge from my sanctum,
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\nfrom the chanting priests\u2019 oil lamps and flowers,
\nfrom my worshippers\u2019 fears and expectations,
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\ngo shopping, sit in a bar alone,
\nand once a year, perhaps, remember.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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