Mythology In Girish Karnad

“Mythos”- a Greek word meaning “tale” and the origin of the word mythology; according to the dictionary mythology means, a traditional story aiming to explain the meaning of things concerning deities and demigods.

In old times, humankind has looked to utilize stories to clarify the world in which it lives. Similarly, as old man utilized stories of divine beings and creatures to clarify the world; superior person utilizes stories of exceptional legends and colossal scoundrels to do likewise (Stuller). Comic books are modern mythology, in that they are superior man 's strategy for clarifying their general surroundings through the fantastical. The characters frequently handle such major, philosophical, (Ahrens, Jörn, and Meeting) social and story ideas as the nature of sound and malevolence, man 's inward battle, the wannabe, the women 's activist, and the rescuer.

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

In Mythologies across the world there have been innumerable references to non-heterosexuality. Hindu mythology tells of women becoming men, such as Shikhandi, and men becoming women, in the case of Vishnu who turns Mohini. There are also stories of men creating children without women and vice versa, Nara and Narayana who gave birth to Urvashi, and the boneless Bhagirath who was born of two women. Even the languages of this country, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil include words like kliba, napumsaka, mukhabhaga, pedi, etc that point to familiarity with non heterosexual behavior and thought.

Greek mythology is commonly mistaken by those unfamiliar with it as a religious subject. Instead, they are a set of stories about Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines that serve to entertain and give an explanation of how the world came to be. It’s apparent that the world wasn’t like the way it is currently from the beginning, but the myths do give us an idea of how things were like. As Edith Hamilton once said, “ But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them.” This gives us an idea that traces of that time are found in the stories as we read "Mythology" by Hamilton and "Black Ships Before Troy" by Sutcliff which is where we will be able to

Girish Karnad is one of the foremost playwrights of the contemporary Indian stage. He has given the Indian theatre a richness that could probably be equated only with his talents as an actor-director. His contribution goes beyond theatre: he has directed feature films, documentaries and television serials in Kannada, Hindi, and English and has played leading roles as an actor in Hindi and Kannada art films, commercial movies and television serials. He has represented Indian in foreign lands as an emissary of art and culture.

Mythology and Religion existed since the beginning of time and has developed along with mankind. There are many questions and different perspectives about both Mythology and Religion. Mythology is a collection of myths that belong to a specific cultural or religious tradition or group. Mythology includes Mythical stories or folk tales that were passed down from many generations that bring up Gods. Goddesses, Heroes, and the creation of life. Religion however is the belief in and practice worshiping of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. There are various types of Religions that results in different religious perspectives and opinions. Many people believe that Mythology and Religion have no connections, that they

Homer speaks of fate in the singular as impersonal power and sometimes makes it function interchangeably with these of the Olympian gods. The Gods, be that as it may, have more impact on the destiny of the mortals than the free will of the mortals themselves .The pursuer can see the Gods ' choices influencing Odysseus’ destiny when Odysseus is sent back nine days’ worth of cruising due to his group opening Aiolos ' blessing. In The Odyssey, the gods control the fate of the humans. The Gods basically control most of the events that the humans go through in the novel. Things happen to the humans that they cannot control. Fate is an understanding word that is appropriately exampled throughout the novel of the odyssey from the six different

Tony was an eight-year-old boy who liked to daydream a lot, about science, as his most favorite thing to think about happens to be rocks that came from space. Space rocks!

When the gods were pondering how to win the amrita, the elixir of immortally, Vishnu suggested that they let the Devas and Asuras churn the ocean so that the elixir, along with all the herms and jewels, would emerge. They unrooted Mount Mandara and set it on the back of a tortoise and used Vasuki, the snake, as the rope. Taking each side of the rope, the Asuras and Devas began twirling Mount Madara. The friction of the churning caused fire, which Indra put out using water from his clouds. Finally, the sap of all the plants flowed into the ocean, which turned to milk, then to butter, ultimately resulting in the divine physician Dhanvantari to bear the elixir. The Asuras surrendered the elixir to Vishnu, but he gave it to the Devas. Rahu snatched a drop but before swallowing it, he was decapitated by Vishnu.

Overtime, each culture group had developed popular traditional tales that are worldly studied and discussed. Despite their different areas of origins and the distinct story plots, they all share a similar purpose and that is to guide humans to behave properly. Since these stories share an identical purpose and are plotted in a way resembling our real lives, their characters have a similar pattern of behavior, which reveals a great deal about human nature. With this in mind, there are similarities between the two most widely known pieces of literature, Greek mythology and the biblical stories, namely, the Greek myth of Hera and Io compared with the biblical story Cain and Abel, the myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha compared with the story of Noah’s ark, and the myth of Pandora compared with Adam and Eve. These stories vividly reveal aspects of human nature.

In the Iliad, the gods were portrayed with human qualities. They intervened or refused to intervene based on their emotional attachments and were ultimately the influence of the humans’ actions throughout the poem. The gods and humans’ similar qualities allowed the humans to exercise free will instead of being puppets to the gods. The comparative personalities also allowed Homer to use the gods to explain certain characters behaviors.

In Rabindranath Tagore’s play, Raktakarabi (Red Oleanders, 1924), set in an imaginary town called Yakshapuri ruled under capitalism, minorities are dehumanized and exploited into becoming a source of gold digging machines by a brutal King whose ever growing obsession with wealth had turned him despicable until salvation became apparent in the hands of a woman named Nandini. Nandini is the protagonist and the King is the antagonist of the play. Yakshapuri in Hindu mythology is referred to as the abode of the god of its hoard of treasure. In the play, the King symbolizes the oppressor of both humans and nature by fear and power and Nandini symbolizes the nature that restores its equilibrium by shaking everything into its righteous place by beauty, love and strong character. What’s left in between are the oppressed: the miners along with their families who are undoubtedly and hopelessly stuck in a rollercoaster where their freedom is nowhere to be apparent. Tagore shows his concern over the materialistic industry-oriented mentality of men and the lust of controlling the resources of the earth as well as the inhabitants by exploiting, estranging and circumscribing the underdogs.

The word “narrative” is represent experimental and factorial skills, the subtle and every day performance that is depicted by the writer. Her diction is pointed and the textures communicated exquisite. In terms of techniques her writing is masterful. It is stated that, in terms of technique, her writing contains expertise she could not write of an experience but could animate it with sharp and vivid life. There is not a single flat sentence in her book. Her narrative texture changes from scene to scene, taking on chameleon life, the mind-set of the characters being described as meaningful. The content of GithaHariharan’s novel is based on progressive ideas:

Mythos, the Greek word for myth means story, appertain to colorful tales that enlightens about the origins of humans and the universe. Myths, as amazing as it sounds, is also a cause for birth of new religions, where and how they originated. Many cultures have myths about how the gods and goddesses came to be, even elucidating the origin of humanity and its traditions. Even ideas about how this world of ours came to existence have many myths, creation myths behind it, disparate in every culture and society, which demonstrates a view on its role in the world. Mythology is simply the study of the myth. There are many psychological theories and meanings that explicate mythology. The most recurrent belief about the psychological value of myth is that myths emblematize contrasting elements of our own psyches or souls. The psychoanalytical frames of reference on myths have indisputably been ineluctable. Myths were and still are progressively seen as expressions of desideratum in the human psyche. But the big question is, what is the beneficence of mythology towards the amelioration of society? If there are myths to decipher or exhibit certain things, character or situations, there also are science and technology, which accommodate every explanation needed to understand each of those things. Many go to science for such interpretation, which conveys the impression of taking care of the signification behind all those natural phenomena,