Anybody in here into Indian (India) mythology?

[tanyev]

Any of the great minds here in this forum have any thoughts about this post? I don't know much about the mythology of India, but I thought it was interesting. (Nice photo at the link)

NASA Images Discover Ancient Bridge between India and SriLanka
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x11797

Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The bridge currently named as Adam´s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.

The bridge´s unique curvature and composition by age suggests that it may be man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago.

This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in Tredha Yuga (more than 1,700,000 years ago).

In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme.

This information may not be of much importance to the archeologists who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology.

[Desertrose]

1. Don't know much about it....but this looks interesting

I'd like to check this out when I get the chance....all this ancient "stuff" we are now rediscovering fascinates me.
cool.

Thanks, tanyev:hi:

[hvn_nbr_2]

2. Interesting

Were humans even out of Africa 1.7 million years ago? I'm not up on the latest news of human origins but I think that's pushing the limits of origins even in Africa. Also I have no idea how long it took before humans left Africa. A poster on the original DU thread says that humans didn't settle the Indian subcontinent until a million years after that. Still it's interesting to see how myths and legends sometimes correlate with real history (history in the sense of what happened, not in the sense of historical written records) and science.

[patrice]

3. I chant daily. Rama is the effulgence of Krsna who is the SuperSoul

in ALL and in EveryThing. What Christians call God, but different from the Christian God, because, though Krsna manifests as "human" in order to kill demons who enslave humanity, it is a little closer to think of Krsna as whatever it was that caused, and will ultimately end, the Big Bang. Though Krsna kills demons, some of them He also promotes up through their Karmic path to His Own Eternal Presence, as for example, He did with Kaliyuga, the thousand headed King of Black Cobras, who was poisoning the River of Krsna's village Dvaraka, "when" Krsna was a "child". Krsna almost killed Kaliyuga; Kaliyuga's wives pleaded for mercy; Krsna said Kaliyuga is as I have created him, He relented and banished Kaliyuga to a great sea and warned His own golden eagle, Garuda, who loves to kill snakes to leave Kaliyuga alone.

Christian Gods hate Evil, they reject it, and their followers seem to see Evil as separate from God, which has always played havok with my notion of what omnipotence would be. Evil must also be the will of "God" to me. This is why Christianity is only part of the story to me.

[tanyev]

4. That's interesting.

Any insight on this bridge and its significance?

[patrice]

5. Nope.

I'm reading some of the Bhagavad Gita, haven't read anything like that yet.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Here is a good site

This has multiple entires on world religions and myths... http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

[tanyev]

7. Wow.

What a great resource. Thanks!