Pranali Patel's Blog

Crash Course Mythology video  These mythology crash course are really interesting. They are helpful in learning about the general things about mythology and also actual myths that exist in the world. There was so much information coming all at once which was hard to comprehend at the same time but there were many interesting things that were said. I like how there was examples given for things that were said which made it easier to understand. I really like the myth example that was given about how humans apparently eat 10 spiders in a year but this is not a proven fact. This is just a myth, just like many other myths that we hear. The guy is pretty easy to understand and he is pretty interactive in his video. He has a good tone of voice that he uses. I like how he included all kinds of different myths around the world and ones we find in different cultures. I like how the video had stuff about Hero’s and they included women and men because the actual heros are both genders. When...

PDE Ramayana: Kumbhakarna . Source. Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913) The character I found really interesting was Kumbhakarna . He is a demon but he also sleep for months without waking up. What is so surprising is even when elephants walk over him, he does not wake up. When someone wakes him up before his time to wake up he is very cranky. He sounds like a big baby to me, when you wake up a baby they also wake up cranky. After reading about him it he just seems to show off his powers. I read that just to show how powerful he is, he ate monkeys. The story I would want to recreate with Kumbhakarna would be him sleeping for over six months but when he gets woken by someone, whoever it is. He will eat them, to show that he is angry. This would happen multiple times when someone wakes him up and he eats them without caring who is it just to show power. With this I will bring a twist on how his brother wakes him up one day and of course he would be angry like always. H...

PDE Ramayana: Hanuman's Leap . Source.  Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Sister Nivedita (1914). The character I found interesting from this part of the story was Hanuman and his story. It was mentioned that when Hanuman was a child, one day he was hungry and couldn't find what to eat. Then he saw the sun in the sky and assumed it was a fruit. Since he was far away, the sun was smaller which looked like a fruit, so he wanted to reach the sun and eat it. Indra, another god, came along and had to hit him which caused the wind god to get mad. This shows how much everyone cared for Hanuman.  I found the fact that Hanuman wanted to eat the Sun really interesting. This shows how innocent he was at that age and how everyone was so caring towards him. The way I would want to recreate the story is by Hanuman actually eating the sun and showing consequences. Such as the earth being dark twenty four hours a day because there is no sun and all the issues that can cause such as...