Literally "She who flows,"Saraswati (the energetic consort of Brahma) is the goddess of music, the arts, and learning. She is usually shown holding a stringed instrument similar in shape to a sitar but known as a vina. Sometimes spelled Sarasvati.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...