<em>"sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies involving fire"
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<em>“Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical”
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<em>"sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something that people want'"
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<em>T</em>hese three options support the inference that sugar cane had special significance in the past. Sugar cane had very special meaning, but was not known as the sugar we know today. It was a very important element for religious ceremonies, considering it sacred.
These phrases best represent the ancient significance and importance of the sugar. It is known from the paragraph that it was mentioned in early Hindu writings.
Sugar was first considered as a sweet protection for lovers . It was used to worship and request help from Durga, the most important goddess, then the priests continued using it until it was transformed. This transformation led to "dark grains of sand" which were then transformed into a kind of "sand" which it is more like to the sugar that is known in this era.
The main idea fromthis text is that brothers Grimm´s tales had changed along their 7 editions,being the last one, quite different from the first. Then,the text finishes by stating that now that the bicentenary of those tales is being celebrated, we could take a look to see how different they are from what we know about them today.
As this is the main idea, the first option is not quite likely possible,because the text does not talk about the Grimms itself, but about how much the tales changed; the second option is not possible,because there are no excerpts from the tales; finally the last option is not that possible either, because the text does not regard the honors received by the brothers, but it mentions the honors received by the tales, so, as aconclusion, the most reasonable answer would be the third: to inform the reader that the text will take a second look at Grimms´ original tales.
