Mythology For Millennials

Mythology for the Millennial: From Shurpanakha to Mahishi, angry women make for better stories

It's really all because of Shurpanakha that the Ramayana even became an interesting story, if you think about it

Mythology for the Millennial: Soma, the moon god, and why you should raise a glass to him next time you're drinking

Soma was Hinduism's Bacchus, our Amy Winehouse: they tried to make him go to rehab, he said no, no, no and eventually was shunted out of his duties as the god of all intoxicants, to become the god of the moon instead — a gig no one else wanted.

Mythology for the Millennial: Humanity's flaws make sense, when you consider Brahma was its creator

Brahma created Death, who was so unhappy with her job description, she wept and begged, and stood in water for thousands of years and top of one toe on top of a mountain for millions, but he would not budge. That's Brahma: getting other people to do his dirty work since time began.

Mythology for the Millennial: Ancient India's sages have disturbing parallels in the modern world

Meet the Harvey Weinsteins of ancient India: the sages | #MythologyForTheMillennial

Mythology for the Millennial: The bro code, as exemplified by Mahabharata's Nakula and Sahadev

Nakula and Sahadeva are a little bit like the culture guy and the food guy from Queer Eye, we know they're there and they're certainly very attractive, but what do they do exactly apart from teaching someone how to make an omelette or giving a pep talk?

Mythology for the Millennial: What Vishnu's female avatar teaches us about women in ancient India

Mohini came from Vishnu, and while it's not entirely clear whether Vishnu himself turned into a woman or merely created the illusion of a woman like augmented reality, all agree that she was extremely beautiful and very skillful at achieving her one and only goal: getting the better of someone using her feminine wiles.