The Goddess Meenakshi is the upasana murthi, or Hindu patron deity of the fine arts. Her little parrot knows each of the 64 Kalā and can recite them for you.
I have generated the following custom list from several web sources. They each have specific Hindi names, but here we list them in English.
1. singing 2. playing instruments 3. dancing 4. theater 5. painting 6. body-painting 7. rice and floral decoration 8. making a flower blanket 9. personal grooming 10. jewelry 11. bedmaking 12. creating music woth water 13. splashing water 14. color mixing 15. garland-making 16. coronets 17. dressing for bed 18. tragus decoration 19. aromatics 20. applying ornament 21. juggling 22. secret mantras 23. magic and illusions 24. food preparation 25. beverage prepartation 26. weaving and cloth-mending 27. embroidery 28. the lute and small drum 29. making and solving riddles 30. tongue twisters 31. recitation of books 32. enacting short plays 33. solving enigmatic verse 34. preparation of shield, cane and bow and arrows 35. thread spinning 36. carpentry 37. engineering 38. silver 39. metallurgy 40. sexual arts 41. mineralogy 42. medicine 43. lamb and cock fighting 44. maintaining conversation between men and women 45. perfumes 46. combing hair 47. communication with the hands 48. impersonation 49. knowledge of dialects 50. prediction 51. mechanics 52. use of amulets 53. conversation 54. composing and reciting verse from memory 55. training parrots and mynas to speak 56. shrine-building 57. lexicography 58. concealment with clothing 59. gambling 60. the dice game, akarsha 61. mastery of children's toys 62. personal etiquettte 63. understanding of dharma 64. awakening the master with music at dawn
