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Hindu Mythology?

The Name of the article should renamed to Hindu Puranas/Ithihasa. Hindu's don't regard Vedas, Puranas, Ithihasa as "Myths". Hence the name Mythology is inapproriate and should be renamed or deleted completely.115.113.80.34

Yes, the title should be "Hindu theology" instead or "Hindu traditions." Bladesmulti (talk) 18:29, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Traditions, theology and mythology are all distinct. Abecedare (talk) 20:04, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously because they are not myths, they got some basis, so tradition would fit better. Bladesmulti (talk) 03:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are misreading myth/mythology to be pejoratives rather than descriptive terms for stories told in the Puranas, the epics and some parts of the Vedas. Please take a look at the wikipedia article on mythology, or WP:RNPOV, or the first definition provided by OED for "myth":

Myth: A traditional story, typically involving supernatural beings or forces, which embodies and provides an explanation, aetiology, or justification for something such as the early history of a society, a religious belief or ritual, or a natural phenomenon

Abecedare (talk) 09:38, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AGreed. This may be won't the best argument, but i still try, just like other people noted here, that Why we don't regard islamic mythology? christian mythology? Even though they got even much harder justification of this known world. Bladesmulti (talk) 09:52, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are articles on Christian mythology, Islamic mythology, Jewish mythology but frankly the literature related to "Hindu" mythology is far vaster and richer perhaps because (1) Hinduism is older, not based on a single work, and does not emphasize/enforce monotheism, (2) the weak demarcation between secular and religious pursuits within (what is regarded as) Hinduism, due to which many literary (astronomical, medical ...) texts are counted as "Hindu" rather than just "Indian". In any case trying to fit Hinduism in the mould of Christianity, Islam etc is not only unjustified per WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NPOV etc but would also mean that we delete all articles on various Hindu Gods and deities except Brahman because there are no corresponding articles on List of Christian deities and List of Islamic deities. Silly, isn't it? Abecedare (talk) 10:28, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's larger because there is much more content. I agree. Another reason would be that there's still no better handling of other religion's articles compared to the Hinduism-related articles. Bladesmulti (talk) 10:47, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This should be called Hindu Dharma. And there is no real page for 'Christian Mythology' Extremely based, I must say. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MahaShaktiPremi (talk • contribs) 15:23, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But myths according to general public is a derogatory word when used about faiths. Fag can mean a cigar, but not in the context of calling someone this word. So when a normal person goes online to google someones FAITH and they see the word MYTH it is clearly biased. If 1.2 Billion Hindus on this planet would like to use a more objective unbiased word then why can't we just use "story", "theology", "theory", "belief", "tradition", "interpretation", "perspective", or literally anything that isn't COMMONLY USED AS AN INSULT StopSayingMyth (talk) 18:46, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ofc god concepts are just a myth, don't cry religious kids 117.212.48.25 (talk) 01:13, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not use the word ‘Mythology’. Hinduism is not a ‘myth’. It is our history. We don’t say islamic mythology or Christian mythology right? Please use the word Hindu Theology. 103.89.235.102 (talk) 01:45, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Heart ^(talk) 01:48, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes we do: Christian mythology. And: Christ myth theory. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 04:25, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth mentioning that even mainstream scholars think that the stories in the Gospels are mostly fictional and do not treat them as historical sources anymore, or at least consider them unreliable. In any case, they are not critical biographies or historical accounts in the modern sense (they may be biographies as a genre, but in antiquity, fictional biographies written about both historical and mythological figures were common). Even far more recent characters have had legends develop around them. Hebrew scripture is full of unverifiable legends, too. All parts of the Bible are far more problematic and difficult to use as sources for history than scholars used to assume because they are full of symbolism, propaganda and hagiography and are extremely biased. (Even in antiquity there were relatively critical historians such as Arrian.) Critical, secular scholars do not treat the Abrahamic religions, and especially Christianity, any differently from Eastern religions now. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 00:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Mythology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 10 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): BlueMichaela (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by BlueMichaela (talk) 21:31, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of "myth" section necessary?

The very first mention of the word myth links to the wikipedia article that explains what a myth is and also has a note attached that explains it. Do we really need to have a whole section also dedicated to explaining this word? From what I see of the talk page it seems that some people have misunderstood the word. However, this isn't consistent across other mythology pages. I can see that the term has ruffled some feathers but if we pander to everyone who doesn't know what a word means then wikipedia pages would have to include a dictionary of terms several times longer than the article proper. At any rate the second paragraph listing seminal texts in this section mostly consists of information already present in the introduction which ought to be condensed into the introduction or given a dedicated place in the article as the paragraph has little to do with explaining what a myth is. Cymroes (talk) 22:48, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

yes, it's necessary; it's not "ruffled some feathers," it's a consistent pov-pushing who find the term 'Hindu-mythology'offensive. Regarding the repetition: the lead summarizes the article, so we can't mention those texts only in the lead. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I understand what you mean by pov-pushing but if you mean the consistent complaints I can understand if it's a unique issue to these articles (I have found that the definition is also brought up for the mythologies of other active religions) I would say it might make sense for it to be a "box note"/disclaimer at the top of the page rather than a main body section. As for the repetition thank you for explaining, perhaps the texts should be mentioned further down the article though because the flow feels a bit awkward to re-tread that information so quickly when there's so much overlap. I can see from your profile that you've spent far more time and energy on this topic so I'll defer to your knowledge/experience on this. Cymroes (talk) 11:15, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 Spring 25

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 January 2025 and 16 May 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mmille75 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by DAlbers12 (talk) 03:22, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Move back

@Daniel Case, Doug Weller, and Bishonen: can one of you move this page back to "Hindu mythology" and block the editor in question? Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 04:18, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done I have also move-protected the page. Daniel Case (talk) 04:28, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]