Thread 24690752

Where do I start with Hindu mythology, /lit/bros?

>>24690752 (OP)
Ramayana
Mahabharata
Bhagavad Gita

Personally, I love mahabharat

>>24690752 (OP)
If you want secondary sources: Ka, by Roberto Calasso.
Great analysis of the literary/philosophical aspects of hindu myths

Worthless ideas

>>24690884
Yeah what this anon said, also if you want extra you can check out the Puranas

>>24690899
lmao you mad, bro?

>>24690752 (OP)
penguin has a collection of hindu myths. but i agree that experiencing them in context is probably more rewarding. rigveda has some mythology, although it's not the main focus and usually only referenced glancingly. mahabharata is probably the greatest of all the hindu texts, but rigveda is great in a more unique way, as it is a product of the bronze age.

>>24690752 (OP)
Greek mythology mogs both.

>>24690752 (OP)
The Majambrata is pretty good, but the Sayaimkrishna or the Dhum-Shahalamgrinyeeta are generally considered necessarily prior

>>24692542
The fact that you think Roman mythology is different than Greek mythology means you were filtered hard. Romulus and Remus was a Greek myth

>>24692562
Impressively well researched shitpost

start with sanskrit

>>24692577
>Romulus and Remus was a Greek myth
It ain't a myth, it's a fact

The Camp of the Saints

>>24692606
...That came from Greece

Meditate in your own shit for 30 minutes a day and you must stick to a strict fecal diet then the myths will show themselves to you in your stool patterns left in the dirt after you scoop them up from off the road

>>24692806
>post thread about Hinduism
>anon sees it and remembers over a billion Indians have had sex
>remembers he's a virgin
>starts seething about India
>Doesn't even have a passport
lol

>>24692808
THE sex?!?!

>>24692833
Over a billion Indians have had THE sex

>>24690752 (OP)
Do not redeem Hinduism, sir

>>24692577
The Etruscans would like a word

>>24692947
Etruscan mythology was also heavily Hellenized, the unique aspects of their were typical for Italic tribes

>>24690752 (OP)
Refer to this site: https://sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm and go from top to bottom
And if you're interested in Vedic Metaphysics and in depth perspective, refer to this: https://archive.org/details/UL-the-complete-works

>>24692962
The Hellenization of Etruria was quite superficial; their whole culture was radically different.

>>24690752 (OP)
Do different levels of heaven and hell exist in Hinduism? How about the devas? Are there different kinds of them?

>>24690899
My mother is jewish btw should put that out there.

>>24692542
>Greek mythology
DUDE WHAT IF RATIONAL CONCEPTS WERE LE HUMANS LMAO

Fuck off.

try eating poop

>>24692985
>https://archive.org/details/UL-the-complete-works

wtf is this schizo stuff

>>24693610
Kino of highest order

>>24690899
Islamic post

>>24693817
Chris Hansen inspired wackiness

>>24693841
It's entirely Vedic from beginning to end, but it goes from a secular explanation to full blow Hindu slant over the course of the material. Amazing stuff.

>>24693013
Don't disagree with you, I'm referring to mythology specifically which was

>>24693019
Yes to both

>>24692577
You are not very eurodite. There was a process of greco-isation of roman myth, but they were not the same earlier on.

>>24694848
>eurodite
I keked. Of course the two were different at one point but all surviving sources of myths are told in a Hellenic framework. Most differences were ritual distinctions from ancient Italic rites

>>24690752 (OP)
I'm reading the Mahabharata now and Bhishima is an incredibly admirable guy.

>>24695207
Yukio Bhishima

>>24695207
which part are you at now?

>>24690752 (OP)
Indians are poop. I can't take a anything they say or do seriously.

>>24696543
Why did low human capital right wingers start seething about Indians so much? Why were they so keen to latch on to the current thing to whine about?

>>24690884
Bhagavad gita is in mahabharata retard

>>24696547
The only complaints I've heard are the call center scams, that they're bad at coding and that they smell bad. Seems like it's just another thing to complain about really. Basically every race or nationality has annoying or outputting things about them.

doodoo thread
doodoo mythos
from doodoo subhumans
that came from a subcontinent (facts, look that one up)
made for even lower doodoo subhumans
achieved nothing but doodoo
eventually ate bovine doodoo in the end
fucking dothead piece of shit

>>24690752 (OP)
Weird meme. I've always seen it other away around. Is Hinduism for chuds and Hellenism for redditors now? I thought it was the other way around. Maybe it is a zoomer millenial difference.

>>24690752 (OP)
>SAAR!
hard pass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchagavya

still don't understand what this thing really means

>>24690884
>Personally, I love mahabharat
I read a few sections of it and it was so bizarre I saw no point in continuing. Eating a bull's piss and shit, a guy getting beheaded then his severed head floating up and swallowing the sun, immediately come to mind. I don't see what the appeal is

>>24696711
>I refuse to look into Hindu mythology because of some weird religious practice
I assume you apply the same logic to classical western mythology as well

>>24696741
You would have loved that thread about the book where a college graduate jerks off minotaurs

>>24696739
we don't commune with literal shit

>>24696710
>one (1) jeet begins spamming a niche 4chan board with jeet nationalism
>instantly contruct a narrative in your head about a supposed generational divide concerning the perception of ancient hellenic culture
holy based. a lot of you guys would have been hilarilus as schizos

>>24696748
you're probably right, tes vi better have minotaurs or ill blow my gasket

>>24696729
it's a mace/thunderbolt. the weapon of indra, like thor's hammer of zeus' thunderbolt. it just got co-opted and redefined in weird ways as different religions evolved and stripped the vedic religion for symbolic parts.

>>24696737
don't remember either of those things, but yeah there's a lot of random stuff in there. what happened was they had a story called the bharata and by gradual accretion it picked up just about every random story or doctrine anyone wanted to attach to it, thus becoming the "maha" (mega) bharata. sort of a similar process as what happened to the vajra. the core story is basically a cousin of the homeric stories, it includes a lot of the same arcs and tropes.

>>24697482
zeus' thunderbolt and thor's hammer, particularly the former, are very important theological symbols, so I'm not sure this statement holds

>>24697565
i'm not saying it was not a symbol originally, what i'm saying is that its meaning in tantric buddhism or whatever doesn't necessarily have a very strong connection with its original meaning.
sure, it was a symbol, but like those others it was a pretty obvious one, not too abstract, more of a metonym - a little bit multivalent in the context of actual rigvedic poetry perhaps, but certainly nothing like the much later esoteric schools that made use of it.
anyway my point was moreso the fact that it is literally cognate with those mythologies.