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    Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1913) is a book written by Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Responding to the call of Swami Vivekananda, Sister...
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  • alternative name of India, meaning the "land of Hindus". Among the earliest known records of 'Hindu' with connotations of religion may be in the 7th-century...
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    Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the...
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    Hindus are the world's third-largest religious group after Christians and Muslims. The vast majority of Hindus, approximately 966 million (94.3% of the...
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    Manasa (category Hindu goddesses)
    (2003). Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Kessinger Publishing. p. 330. ISBN 0-7661-4515-8. "Government of Bihar". Lrc.bih.nic.in. Archived from the original...
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  • Nahusha (category Characters in the Mahabharata)
    Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Courier Corporation. pp. 371–372. ISBN 978-0-48-621759-8. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nahusha. Hindu Mythology...
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  • Hindu cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, cycles within time, physical structure, and effects on living entities according...
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  • creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are...
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  • Hindus have experienced both historical and ongoing religious persecution and systematic violence, in the form of forced conversions, documented massacres...
    194 KB (22,361 words) - 09:53, 14 August 2024
  • National myths are narratives about a nation's past that symbolize the nation's values. There is a complex relationship between recital of myths and the enactment...
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    Norse mythology (redirect from Norse myths)
    mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia...
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    viewed as aspects of the same Ultimate Reality called Brahman. From ancient times, the idea of equivalence has been cherished for all Hindus, in its texts...
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    scientific evidence does not support, nor the reasons for the claims. While literal interpretations of such myths may appear to indicate extraordinarily...
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    pronunciation) is a Hindu deity and considered the most worshiped god in the Sangam literature. Perumal is worshipped mainly among Tamil Hindus of South India...
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    Japanese mythology. The history of thousands of years of contact with Chinese and various Indian myths (such as Buddhist and Hindu mythology) are also...
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    Sister Nivedita (category Irish Hindus)
    1913 Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists, London : George G. Harrap & Co., 1913 Notes of some wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda, 1913 Footfalls of Indian...
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    Wendy Doniger (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology...
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    is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader...
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    The Master as I Saw Him: Being pages of the life of the Swami Vivekananda is a 1910 book written by Sister Nivedita. The book covers Nivedita's experiences...
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    considered cosmogonical myths – that is, they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness. Creation myths often share several...
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