Squish! Mud season will soon be with us. In some parts of the country, with the weather going crazy, it's arrived... Squish! Dark, brown, gooey, ‘who’s-going- to-wash-your-clothes!’, sticky, good old mud. Mr Mud is a fun person to know...
	MUD FACTS Ghatam, one of the most ancient percussion instruments of South India, is a mud pot with a narrow mouth. Made mainly of clay baked with brass or copper and iron filings, the size of the ghatam determines its pitch. The pitch can be slightly altered by the application of clay or water.

Antarctic mud reveals ancient evidence of global climate change (Stanford Report, January 16, 2002). New geologic evidence from deep-sea mud deposits strongly suggests that Antarctica had periods of extreme warming and cooling long before the invention of automobiles.

Varaha, is a wild boar, who pushed mud up from the sea to create land, according to Hindu mythology. Maidu legend says Ultrama, a Turtle, created the first land with mud from the bottom of the primordial ocean.

ALL IS MUD

Ganesh or Ganapati is the son of Lord Shiva and Parvati. According to Hindu mythology Parvati created a little boy out of mud and gave him life. This was Ganesh.

According to Greek myth, Pandora 'all-gifted' was the first women on earth. She was created by Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship by order of Zeus with mud and water and was gifted talents from all the gods; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion and so on, hence her name – Pandora 'all-gifted'.

Prometheus was spared imprisonment in Tatarus because he had not fought with his fellow Titans during the war with the Olympians. He were given the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into his clay figure.