Hindu Thread Patter

Patter is the term of art given to the spoken portion of a magician's performance.  This was the patter (as best as I can remember) performed as part of the Hindu Thread illusion, in the 1998 PBS documentary "The Art of Magic." it serves as an illustration for the Hindu Creation story.

hindu thread patter (also called the gypsy thread)

[lights a small candle, the magician wears a dark shirt and the stage is dark]
Yellow cotton thread. A single length which will represent the entire universe.
Among the gods of India, it is the god Brahma who creates the universe [pulls a length from a spool]
 and all that there is[pulls another length of thread],
and then [pausing on a tight string]retires[ snaps the thread].
And the God Vishnu takes over [puts down the spool and raises a small length vertically],
and Vishnu sustains the universe in every moment of it’s existence[drawing a very long length horizontally as he speaks].
And then [draws and burns a segment]
at the end of the time [draws and burns a segment]
the god shiva appears [draws and burns a segment]
and does the Tandavam  dance. A weird and terrible dance of fire  [draws and burns a segment],
in which the entire material universe is destroyed  [draws and burns a segment]
in a blinding flash of light [holding up the collected segments]
brighter than 10,000 suns [ transferring it to his other hand, he begins to ball up the thread between his thumb and index finger]
the universe is no more [starring at the balled up string]
There is only silence [ holding up to show the balled string]
only vast cosmic sleep. [ pause ] and out of this cosmic sleep,
The Brahma re awakens himself again [ pulls short threads from either end of the ball and dangles it with the ball in the middle.]
he looks about [pokes at the ball on a string and it dangles]
and seeing nothing, nothing lovely or beautiful
[ he picks up the other end of the string holding in now horizontally]
Decides to create the universe again [ pulling the string and untangling the ball] and in creating it,  he retires pleased [ the full length of the string is shown restored as he speaks the final words]
pleased with his eternal play

[sets down the thread and blows out the candle]

here is the same illusion with a different patter