9 Quotes by Ashwin Sanghi about mythology
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I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.
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The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise and poor Ra lost his divinity.
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Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
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Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.
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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 believe.
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Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
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Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
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In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, “Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?
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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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