Siva and Kaamdeo
This is a good story.
After losing his first wife, Shakti (I'm not sure how she died), the god Shiva sat deep in sorrowful meditation for many days. The king of Gods Indra, who was given to jealosy, thought that he was meditating to earn the Brahm's favor to take Indra's kingdom away from him. So he became jealous and sent Kaamdeo, the God of Sex, to distract Shiv from his mediation. Kaamdeo was afraid because he knew of Shiva's strength, but went anyway. He failed to distract shiva with all his beautiful women and pleasures. So he used his ultimate weapon: an arrow of flowers. When Kaamdeo hit Shiva with his arrow of flowers, Shiva was distracted--his semen flowed throughout the heavens and began to rain upon the earth. Vishnu was afraid, because he knew that the semen of Shiva would burn the earth and destroy all creation, so he sent his servant to collect the semen in a bannana leaf. He (I forgot who actually did this part) did so, and saw that Andati was doing penance in the river Ganga, and so he blew the semen from the leaf into her ear, where it travelled into her stomach and became the monkey god Hanumaun. This is how Hanumaun was born. Meanwhile, transport yourself back to the instant when Shiva was distracted from his meditation. As soon as he opened his third eye, he burt Kaamdeo with his anger. The result of this defeat of Kaamdeo was that all the sages stopped having sex and the human race stopped being able to procreate itself. So, again, Vishnu was afraid that creation was in danger. So he asked Kaamdeo's wife, Rati, to go in front of Shiva and beg that he rescutate Kaamdeo. She did so, throwing herself upon Shiva's feet and begging him to bring her husband back to life. As soon as he saw her distress, his anger dissapeard, and he said "I will bring your husband back to life, but he will be reborn in each human individually, so all humanity will carry a part of him." and this is why we all have sex drives.
And then later the sage Narood thouht he also defeated Kaamdeo, but that's a whole nother story.

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