Confusion about Hindu Mythology

I think Hindhu mythology is a western word coined by western philosophers. I think the word you are looking for is Puranas. Vedas and puranas are written form of science and conceptualised history from ancient india. The word Puranas has many actual meanings. One of it means old texts meaning to some extent written history in some cases.

Hindu mythology is largly independent of greek mythology ...also hindu's worship them as gods .

Originally posted by: ujwala444

I think Hindhu mythology is a western word coined by western philosophers. I think the word you are looking for is Puranas. Vedas and puranas are written form of science and conceptualised history from ancient india. The word Puranas has many actual meanings. One of it means old texts meaning to some extent written history in some cases.

Originally posted by: Guinea

Hindu mythology is largly independent of greek mythology ...also hindu's worship them as gods .

Regarding meera- krishna and rudra - parvati ...while they are famous pairs who are worshipped as gods , the difference is meera was not krishnaji's wife but a devotee ...

Usually wherever krishnaji is worshipped its his wife rukmini who is next to him .

Hope I was of some help 😊

Originally posted by: Oyster

Oh yeah I would certainly agree that Hindu mythology is completely independent of Greek mythology.

Thanks for the clarification. Just to confirm.. so since gods and goddesses such as Krishna, Rumani, Meera, Rudra, and Parvati are worshipped, the underlying belief is that they existed at one point in history and the statues put in temples today are their representations, right?

It depends... a lot of the stories got documented late .. they were handed down by word of mouth so some of them developed their own life... so while the characters may be real , the stories can be mythical...

Originally posted by: Oyster

So you would agree that for a Hindu to use the term "mythology" would be wrong given his or her beliefs, right? I gather from your response that these narratives are part of recorded actual history for Hindus and hence they cannot be treated as myths. Is that correct? And thanks for your response.

you know..its what you believe. If you believe in the god then they are all real. If your belief is not firm or ranges between that and nonexistent,then it becomes a myth.

As far as I know the most important scriptures of Hinduism Ian Vedas , upaniahad is a derivation of this
These are basically rule book and are divided for different segments
Then comes the gods and goddesses , I think the underlying principle is there is an essence of godliness in all forms of life
You will see mouse( mushika ganpathi's vehicle ) being worshipped somewhere
Basically the rules make sense only when the underlying intention is secure , that UAE demonstrated by these stories
Like Krishna and radha -eternal love beyond marriage , marriage is a rule , love is the underlying emotion , so that Is thaw moral if the story
Shiv parvati :moral is husband wife is equal and ghouls complement each other , the world is said to be mothered by nature adi sakhi and father shiv
So basically these are stories that are meant to convey some message like the moral stories that we tell children so that they understand easily
Not to be taken in the literal sense

Yes. It is believed that all this actually happened in history at some point.

Shivji-Parvatiji, Krishnaji, Ramayan, Mahabharath - all this has happened at some point. 😳