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This & That, Both & Neither: Cracking the Origins of the Mystifying Indian Headshake
Some of the earliest documented myths come from Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent where the earliest farming communities built cities around temples. These stories spoke of gods who wanted to enjoy luxury without labour, so they created humans out of clay. That is why humans toil, serving the gods, fearful of their wrath that causes flood…
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Shiva and Vishnu in My Son, Vietnam
If one travels to Da Nang in Vietnam, then takes an hour’s drive to the …
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Legacy Of Those Denied Success By Heartless Gods
This is a story from Sumerian mythology. Sumer is a region in southern Iraq where the world’s first cities were established around 3500 BC…
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Loss and Recovery of the Vedas
The conch-shell trumpet heralds the shift of time: a great battle that witnesses the end of Dwapara Yuga and the start of Kali yuga. …
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How Story-telling Became a Vedic Tool
Stories transmitted over generations serve as the glue of a community…
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It Is Not Just Hindus Who Love an Imagined Past
Imagined history has always served ideologies. Colonial powers have sought to present precolonial states as barbaric and savage to justify their imperial outreach. Muslims insist that a society before conversion to Islam is ignorant (jahila). For Marxists and Cultural Marxists, the world is full of social injustice, which is why a revolution is needed…
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Glamorising Violence, Gamifying Debate
For the past thirty years, that is what we have been consuming from Hollywood. …
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Vikings Saga on Combat and Curiosity
Like the Greeks, life was tough for the Vikings, and they were fiercely independent people. …
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The Many Mythologies of God
Hindus have a very complex idea of god. God is not all powerful. Nature and karma serve as the background in which God exists. …
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How Faith Destroys Historical Facts
Believers always prefer matters of faith and get irritated with matters of science…
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Does Your God Approve Homophobia?
Which message of God is true? There is no way to confirm any of this. They are matters of faith, based on myth i.e. cultural truths…
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The Greek Hero
Greek stories are full of defiance, and achievement, not about obligation, obedience, and charity…
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History of Amrita Manthan
There are far more Samudra Manthan images found in Southeast Asia than in India, and this remains a huge mystery…
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The Greek Hero Never Cared For Justice
Justice is not a fact. It is a cultural truth that shaped Middle Eastern cultures…
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Fifth Veda Uses Gender As a Metaphor
We need to remember that as per popular lore, the gods created the Puranas as the Fifth Veda to transmit Vedic wisdom to women and lowborn people who did not have access to the mantra and the ritual…
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Greek Gods, English Words
In the Devanagari script, there is no upper and lowercase. So, the name of God can become a proper noun and a common noun…