Here I present: Neil Philip, “Eyewitness Mythology”, 2000, PART TWO (2).
INTRODUCTION.
“The epic weaves myth, history, religion, science, philosophy, superstition and statecraft into its numerous stories-within-stories to create a rich and teeming world filled with psychological complexity”. writer: CHITRA BANERJEE quote.
Chitra Banerjee is an India-descent writer. The element’ of myth in the genre epic is essential to identity in India she believes for her stories.
ABOVE is a curve objective (verifiable) versus subjective (emotional) taken from the writer Arthur Koestler, Act of Creation’, 1964. Koestler believed anthropology-history-biography-novel-epic is sociological identity.
The inclusion of Buddhist, Jains, and Sikhs within Hinduism is part of the Indian legal system. The 1955 Hindu Marriage Act“ [defines] as Hindus all Buddhist, Jains, and Sikhs and anyone who is not a Christian, Muslim, Parsee (Zoroastrian), or Jew.” The numbers of peoples that India myths are religious identity is shown BELOW.
Neil Philip, “Eyewitness Mythology”, 2000 is only seventy (70) pages of images associated with myths. Myth is passed through generations, and logos of myths are as important to Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh as everyone else. The cross is only a logo, but to the Christian the image of the cross is of mythical importance.
