In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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