![]() ![]() However, the 'First Mother' who bestowed the powers on the mistresses says her name comes from Tilottama, the "most beautiful apsara of rain god Indra’s court.” The mistress will lose her supernatural powers if she succumbs to falling in love with a human. ![]() She thought her name came from ‘til’, which is a ‘gold brown’ sesame seed and which ‘fried in its own oil restores luster when one has lost interest in life.” In essence, according to her name, Tilottama is a “life-giver, and restorer of health and hope.” Tilo completed her training for special powers at a beautiful, metaphysical island where the waters were filled with blue lotuses and serpents sang. She has been ordained as a Mistress of Spices as she was the “ one in whose hands the spices sang back.” Being immortal, she inhabits an old woman's body as shopkeeper, but the man who falls in love with her will be able to see how beautiful she really is through her eyes. ![]() Tilo, short for Tilottama, is an Indian immigrant who owns and runs an Indian grocery store in Oakland, California. ![]()
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