Myths and Legends

Class Description

Myths and Legends of Indian Subcontinent To grow up in India is to live in a world alive with demons and irate goddesses, elephant-headed gods and talking animals, lustful kings and virtuous women. My interest in this course stems from my love of storytelling, not from an academic or professional background. This course is structured as a two-semester course: Part I introduces India, its history, and its religion and then focuses on the great Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and the most revered of all the Hindu texts, the Bhagavad Gita. It includes stories of the various avatars of Vishnu and Shiva, the two most important gods in the Hindu pantheon. Part II will focus on the Ramayana, the second of the great Hindu epic poems and stories from a collection of fables, the Panchatantra, and the Jataka tales, the sacred Buddhist morality tales dealing with Gautama Buddha's previous births. *Need a minimum of 10 students In Person, Room B4 Mondays: 10:00am - 11:30am *No class 11/18 Class Limit: 25

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Class fees will be refunded 100% if an instructor cancels class or a student drops before the end of the first week of classes. Registration fees are non-refundable

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