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Anderson, Vera. "Numerology as the base of the myth of creation, according to the Mayas, Aztecs, and some contemporary American Indians." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186236.

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Dewey, Janice Laraine. "The myth of the Amazon woman in Latin American literatures and cultures." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185579.

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Azevedo, Amandine d'. "Cinéma indien, mythes anciens, mythes modernes : résurgences, motifs esthétiques et mutations des mythes dans le film populaire hindi contemporain." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030126.

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Losonczy, Anne Marie. "Les Saints et la forêt: système social et système rituel des Négro-Colombiens :échanges inter-ethniques avec les Emberã du Chocó (Colombie)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212878.

Keener, Candis Michelle. "The Baby Jaguar Series a comparative analysis /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1259607927.

Balloy, Benjamin. "Procession, progression. Périodicité, mythes et hiérarchie dans l'organisation sociale des Muscogee (Creek) au 18e siècle (Alabama, Etats-Unis)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0114.

Schwabenland, Christina. "Creation mythology in voluntary organisations in the UK and India." Thesis, University of East London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532483.

Estorniolo, Milena. "Manger (avec) l'ennemi : mythe, subsistance et alimentation chez les Baniwa et les Koripako (Amazonie, Brésil)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0054.

Newport, Sarah. "Writing otherness : uses of history and mythology in constructing literary representations of India's hijras." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/writing-otherness-uses-of-history-and-mythology-in-constructing-literary-representations-of-indias-hijras(d884b37f-417b-478d-9f19-e00d2129c327).html.

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Christie, Angela. "Cultural Biography : The Ethnic Identity of Cherokee Women of North America and the Symbolism of the Sacred, Consonant Circle, 1540-Present." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030174.

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Re-imagining Hindu Mythology in the Twenty-First Century: Amish Tripathi and Indian Fantasy Fiction in English

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The decade after economic liberalization in India (1991) has brought significant changes in country’s social and cultural life. It was especially evident in the rapidly growing middle classes and their developed new tastes in lifestyle, leisure, and entertainment. The predominant form of Indian popular culture—cinema—was supplemented with other forms of leisure and home entertainment, one of them—popular literature in English. The rise of literature in English also saw the development and popularization of new genres, such as romcom and chick-lit, but also Indian fantasy literature. Even though Indian fantasy literature in English draws its inspiration from general Heroic/Epic fantasy in narrative construction and in publication trend of serialization, its content is uniquely Indian, because the majority of Indian fantasy literature rely heavily on Indian mythology and usually interpret and even rewrite various Hindu scriptures and epic literature. By taking the Shiva Trilogy by the leading author of Indian fantasy fiction Amish Tripathi (and concentrating mostly on the first installment— The Immortals of Meluha ) as a case point, this chapter proposes to investigate the emergence of Indian fantasy fiction not only as a developing new form of modern religious experience but also in a broader context of socio-cultural transformations and political climate of contemporary India.

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REWRITING MYTH: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF AMISH TRIPATHI’S SHIVA TRILOGY

Mythology has been an inevitable source and subject of study in literature down the ages. The writers since many ages have tried to re-interpret the previous myths. The intent here is to provide a new perspective to the long-established myths of the centuries. Recently the new breed of writers like Amish Tripathi, Ashok Banker and Ashwin Sanghi are experimenting the mythology genre by blending it with the other modes of writing. These writers have started a new tradition by blending mythology with fantasy mode. With this kind of implementations, these writers are modernizing the Indian myths. The research paper explores Amish Tripathi " s stance in this age-old practice in a larger spectrum and his contribution to Indian Writing in English. Further, it comprises of close textual analysis of Shiva Trilogy with reference to the practice of retelling of Indian mythology.

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Amish Tripathi's Shiva Trilogy is a popular mythological fiction in India. The trilogy is a euhemeristic treatment of the myths of God Shiva in the form of fiction. The paper argues that Tripathi's treatment of mythology is more a frame of reference to contemporary issues of the Twenty-first century than a historical retelling. The trilogy is set in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization at the intersection of Iranian plateau and the South Asian peninsula around 1900 B.C and the plot revolves on 'Somras', a posthuman project of the Meluhan society, that leads to depletion of Saraswati river, seasonal plague in Branga region and physical deformation of Naga community. The politics over the usage of Somras results in terrorism, counter-terrorism, war and atomic bombing. To situate the text between the fictional retelling of Hindu mythology and Twenty-first century discourses of ethno-nationalism, counter-terrorism, ecocide, and posthumanism, the study follows the method of textual analysis from the perspective of New Historicism. The paper concludes that forming the mythical tales in the Trilogy after the major Twenty-first century events in India and South Asia in particular and around the World in general, Tripathi has turned Hindu Mythology into a pertinent scripture of the Twenty-first century.

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The current paper focuses on studying the representation of myth in Amish Tripathi’s The Shiva Trilogy. Traditional myth is seen through an alternative perspective. The quest for eradication of evil in the texts turns into a quest for identity and the true nature of evil. Treatment of gender identities in the trilogy is also taken care of in the study. Colonisation dates back to 1900 B.C. where each nation becomes a representative of certain ideological system through its social hierarchy and governmental principle. The exclusion and inclusion of the marginal, eradication of social inequalities are studied too. The paper also talks about the recent phenomena of neo-mythic novels in Indian subcontinent, and the way it exceeds the limits of a text. The recent trends in publishing and marketing strategy opted for the genre is also discussed in the paper. Keywords: Myth, Gender, Other, Colonisation, Social inequalities, Power.

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If catering the celestial sublimity to the mundane plates is an art, Amish Tripathi is the master of it. It needs no saying that Amish Tripathi is one of the most renowned authors among the contemporary pop-mythologists. Most of his works are a revisionist exercise in the art of retelling the ancient Indian epics and divine phenomena. Though revisionist approaches tend to be the voice for the 'voiceless', they are not free from the felix culpa of humanizing the divinity. Limiting the limitless, defining the undefinable, and restraining the unrestrainable can unquestionably lead to a new dimension of alternatives, but the alternatives can also be confronted and questioned by the pre-existing order of the original works. Whereas questioning the reasonability of the original works is celebrated, questioning the validity of the questions must not go unchecked. It is an emphatic assertion that pop-mythology may endeavour to reshape the original mythological scriptures (if they can be termed as 'mythology' at all), but it can never subvert the original texts from which it itself has originated. Therefore, there remains the possibility of the lacunas for the felix culpa to come into action. No pop-mythologist is free from it, and so is not Amish Tripathi. Following the library method of research, this paper is going to explicitly analyze how the aforementioned speculation can actually be illustrated as a questioning enquiry, if not criticism. Some Indic words and names have been transliterated for the sake of convenience, following the IAST method of transliteration.

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Myths are folklores, which introduce the ancient people's culture, lifestyle, and rituals along with their strong belief in particular deities. Every civilization has its mythology. India has a treasure of four Vedas, the Upanishads, the two epics, the eighteen main Puranas, plays, poetry, sculptures, dance, music, and folklore in our mythology. The paper focuses on the use of modern technology by Tripathi in The Shiva Trilogy. This research paper focuses on how Amish Tripathi elaborates "Lord Shiva" known as "Lord of the Lords" worshipped by the Hindus has been narrated as a 'human being' in The Shiva Trilogy. One can find theories of post-modern and post-truth in this Trilogy. Amish Tripathi also narrates the philosophical values in Trilogy. The Paper also tries to elaborate on how Tripathi elaborates a science through the Vedic rituals. The Paper also focuses on the Meluha tribe, how they use medicines and science for long life, using somras proves this example. Shiva Trilogy focuses on Indian history and culture and Amish presents it in a modern way.

Priyanka Bharali

Mythology is a set of mythological stories, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition. In A Glossary of Literary Terms , the term ‘mythology’ is defined as “a system of hereditary stories of ancient origin which were once believed to be true by a particular cultural group, and which served to explain why the world is as it is and things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which people conduct their lives” (Abrams & Harpham 230). However, myth plays an important role as the foundation of many societies and cultures. It reflects the traditions, beliefs, customs, etc. of a society. Devdutt Pattanaik defines myth as “a cultural construct, a common understanding of the world that binds individuals and communities together…if the myth is an idea, mythology is the vehicle of that idea” (Pattanaik xvi). Myth and mythology are relevant for the development of a community. I...

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