This is my World

I write this article after I read a post in one of my facebook groups. The group is called Ponniyin Selvan , named after the greatest Tamil historical fiction written in modern times.  The beginning: I saw Baahubali 2 a few days ago. One of the scenes in the movie disturbed me. When Ballala is crowned the king of  Mahishmati (Magizhmathi in Tamil version) , various wings in his army offer their salutations. In this scene and in the first movie too, Kattappa is introduced as "Karikala" Kattappa (in both Tamil and Telugu versions), a slave to the kingdom who bows to the feet of the Ballala. Now, anyone familiar with Tamil history will know that Karikalan (lived in the 2nd century) was one of the greatest Tamil kings. He built a dam across Cauvery that the British called the Grand anaicut because it was superior in technic to other dams from the period.  Now, naming a slave Karikalan and making him bow hurt me very badly.  However, I just let it go then until...

Mythology is one of my childhood fixations. These fairy tales have never stopped to amaze me till this day and I have always  wanted more in the end. In my time, I have read a little bit of mythology from different cultures and the parallels that can be drawn  between them are innumerable. Some of them are fairly well-known while others are not. I have tried to compile them both here  while adding a bit from my own reading.  I have also decided to keep out from this article comparisons between nature gods and their stories. Early man was a nature worshiper and wherever he migrated to, he took his gods with them. No matter what culture he adapted, he always found a place  for mother nature in it and it is not surprising that the most ancient religions of the World like the Egyptian, Greek and Indian have  innumerous similarities between themselves when it comes nature worship. In the space of a blog, it would be futile to cover this  vast to...