Religious Myths and Worldviews

Category: Buddhist Myths and Legends

  • Myth of death and disease

    From our discussion of the myth of death and disease this week, my group and I have come up with a couple of interesting stories. I will pick some really meaningful myths that our group has discussed and explained what is the symbolism behind these stories. Let’s get started! Yaramurud’s Really Insistent Mother Natives of…

  • Satan’s Temptation of Christ and Parallels Drawn to Other World Religions

    For this week’s discussion, my group and I discussed Satan’s Temptation of Christ and the components that form the myth. We also discussed how other world religions have similar narratives in their mythology. Background: The Temptation of Christ is a narrative from the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke that tells the story of…

  • How Religious Thought is Encapsulated in Martyrdom Myths

      How do myths of martyrdom encapsulate religious thought?  This was the question that we explored this week within our discussion group, we focused on two main ways that these myths showcase religious thought. The first being how myths of martyrdom serve as an expression of trust and loyalty to one’s religious convictions, and secondly,…

  • Hidden Messages in Temptation Myths

    As we mentioned in our group discussion this week, Satan’s temptation of Christ represents three different temptation; hedonism, egoism, and materialism, which are the three main temptation for people. In contrast to Satan’s temptation of Christ, The Story of Harut and Marut comes to a different ending. While Jesus maintained his position of being faithful…

  • A Tale of Fantastic Beasts, Mythical Creatures and Demons

    My group and I did not have a lot of discussions this week, but the one discussion we had was about the painting “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci. To give a brief on this painting we talked about how this myth of The Last Supper had various untold secrets or messages. However,  the…

  • Creation Myths and Worldviews

    The discussion our group had this week focused mainly on the importance of myths and their correlation with the shaping of beliefs of a specific group or people or society altogether. First of all, it is nearly impossible to deny the influence of religion and myths in modern society. As one of the group members…

  • Chinese Myths and the Creation Stories

    Throughout the history of ancient China, each myth and religion which spread throughout had a social impact it left on the country, some even to the modern era. In this week’s discussion thread, there was the common theme of the social impacts of myths in China. First, let’s talk about ancient China. During the Zhou…

  • The Power of Creation Myths

    This week, we will be diving into three major themes in creation narratives – “Brahma Creates the World” and Izanagi and Izanami- alongside its social impact and relevance today. The following topics are based on the discussion I have had over the last few days with my group members.  The Void  What is the void?…

  • Social Impact and Worldviews of Creation Myths

    This week we studied creation myths specifically relating to Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, and Sikh religions. My group’s discussion focused on the social impacts and the worldviews that these myths produced. In terms of social impact, we thought that the cyclical concept of life and rebirth in the Sikh, Buddhist, and Hindu religions caused followers to…

  • Gender Roles and Worldviews

    GENDER ROLES IN ORIGIN STORIES Our group looked at two different origin myths to analysis the role of gender. In the first myth, “Brahma Creates the World”, we are told of a male deity Brahma who is known for creating the world. He creates feelings, qualities, demons, people, etc. There is a picture in the…