Religious Myths and Worldviews

Category: Hindu Myths and Legends

  • “Brahma and The Danger of a Single Story”

    This week’s discussion included some very interesting topics, such as “Brahma creates the world” and ” Danger of a single story”. These two topics were very dominant and something new to learn about. This Blogpost will focus on Brahma and a review of the Danger of a single story. Brahma is one of the major…

  • A Scientific Explanation for the Act of God

    For this week’s discussion. our group reflected on the infamous Salem Witch Trials. This specific study caught my eye since I am a fan of the supernatural and the themes of feminism that this specific part of history has to offer. The given essay, however, perplexed me, specifically because it focuses on the ‘scientific’ explanation…

  • An insight on Death & Disease thru Mythology

    From this week’s discussion, my group and I discussed two different topics. The first was the various myths from different traditions that correlate with death and disease. And secondly, the examination of the statement “Body practices as an extension of mythic narratives” for a belief system in Africa. Therefore, some of the discussion included perspective…

  • Jinns: Neither Human, Monster, Nor Gods

    For this week, our group took a look at mythologies on the Jinns, powerful supernatural beings popular in Arabian folklore, and the similarities we saw with myths from other religions. For those of us that aren’t well versed in Arabian folklore, we commonly think of Jinns, also known as Genies, as these humanoid, supernatural beings…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Humanity: a Parasite?

    Upon researching numerous online sources and, looking into RELS 200’s Week 3 notes and lecture, I would like to take a deep dive into the role humanity plays in the scheme of the environment and current-day issues. Origin of the Earth In Religion and Mythologies Earth has often played a vital role in many myths…

  • Gender Roles & Our Worldview

    Times are changing. As I was reading everyone’s blog post for this week, it gave me hope to see that as a society and next generation for this world, we are moving away from old ways of thinking and into new progressive ideologies. This progressive thinking is seen in everyone’s responses in our thoughts on…