5Basically, the whole story begins with a battle between the gods and the demons.
The gods weren’t winning and the demons weren’t winning, so the gods had an idea on how to tip the scale in their favor. They decided to make the elixir of life, which would make them immortal. To make it, however, they needed to enlist the help of the demons. Of course, the demons agreed, thinking that they could steal the elixir first. The way it worked was, they went to the sea of milk, took the serpent god, Naga, and used her as a giant churn. The gods held one side and the demons the other. They stirred the sea of milk until they created the elixir of life, like extra-special butter.
Then Vishnu came down from his mountain, or out of the sky, if you like. It doesn’t matter. He came down and he took the
