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@Hadey -
Nope , if the mythology is to be studied, both South and North equally have had one narration, though we can argue about the names and certain character sketches. The basic nomenclature of the tales have had a unified presence all over India.There doesn't exist a tale about any God that has no bearing to both the regions. Hence to say South adapted North is a gross misjudgment. North has always been way behind to actually take to these tales. They were worshiped and practiced in South primarily. shivas and vaishnavas origin?
Association and origin does have an impact, take Buddhism, originated in India but is more associated with South east. Sari was not an indian invention but greek in origin, yet the association in present context is Indian.
Agree the protest and the subsequent banning has taken the attention away from the real discussion surrounding the book. Sad misfortune.
Devdutt Pattanaik is good but there I feel the real authors and the true texts are way more simpler . Caste issues/women stuff have root cause in the human Psychology that has nothing to do with religion. Since religion is abstract, subjective hence can be defined in interpretations suiting individual convenience, it tends to be a decent excuse for our actions.
I don't mind the God worship and won't dispute it's significance in Hinduism , a religion is individualistic and each has their own right to practice it what form or another. No Judging. I won't even say what truly encompasses Hinduism coz I will never know, but what I do understand is that at the end it is, a belief and not fact.Fact makes it objective and hence will always have different views, with might be antagonizing.
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