The Mountain and the Tree

I posted awhile back about a scanned-in comic book version of the Ramayana[1], and today I found - via http://www.boingboing.net/ - that American cartoonist Nina Paley is making an animated musical version, much shorter, giving Sita's side of the story. Free to download, though very slow if you watch them online. I'm downloading the torrents now, and what I've seen so far is absolutely completely and utterly wonderful.

Original site, complete with explanations for those of you not familiar with the Ramayana: http://www.ninapaley.com/Sitayana/

A Sepia Mutiny post giving links to the torrent files: http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001393.html

[1] http://www.livejournal.com/users/mirrorshard/13780.htm