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There was a goddess named Deena. She was very pretty but stubborn and greedy. She wanted everyone to only come to her and ask for advice because she was called the “Great Wise One.” No one ever wanted to come to her for advice though because she would always call them dumb and be so negative. All the gods dislike her. Nobody tried to get close to her. Deena would always be by herself be she didn’t care because she likes everything peaceful and quiet. The one day all the goddesses in the land were all fed up with her advice and greediness they made a plan to get her back because of her rude attitude. So they went to the head of the all the goddesses to take away all Deena’s powers and make her mortal so she’ll realize to know how it feels like to be bossed around. When Deena was sleeping, the head of the goddess took away all her powers and made her mortal. She found herself in a pile of hay. She became furious and she cursed the goddesses. The goddesses knew that she wouldn’t learn her lesson so they sent two other goddesses in disguise having a rough life, needing assistants to carry supplies back to their cottage. Deena ran across the goddesses in disguise, asking for help from Deena for her assistants to carry supplies Deena refused. She gave the rudest look and the rudest advice saying “ I they aren’t able to carry their own home supplies to their cottage that is only 20 feet away then don’t carry anything at all “. When the head of goddesses saw what Deena did. He got so angry that he made Deena go through the hardest times in life for her to understand how selfish she is and that her selfishness does nothing good but upset people. So he made her have no food or water. All she had was shelter that was made out of straws. If she wanted food she had to go do labor work to earn the money. If she wanted water she had to fetch it from a river stream. Deena was so desperate for food and water; she went to go ask for money and food from other mortals. But the other mortals refused because she smelled like poo, her breath smelt like a one week, dried out, old onion, and her face was dirty from not washing her face after she wakes up. Nobody wanted to help her. She was so depressed that she stole food and money. Every mortal hated her because she was so poor and was a thief. So everyone locked her up in a dungeon. After she was locked up in a dungeon she realized that what she did to the goddesses were not right and that being selfish and giving bad advice makes people dislike and she isn’t the wisest person at all. The head of the goddesses saw that Deena learned from being rude and selfish to other people, he changed her back to being an immortal god.

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