Reading Options

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Cakrabyuha from the Mahabharata, source: Wikipedia

I think the span of material available for both this course and Mythology and Folklore is amazing. Students have the ability to choose more of what they want to read, especially in the second half of the semester for this course. Allowing students to make those kinds of decisions for themselves insures that they will not become bored with coursework and that they have more of a voice in their assignments. It will also make class projects more interesting, as students are allowed the opportunity to explore and experiment.

While browsing the reading options, I found it very funny that OU has an Indian mythology comic book selection. In my mind, mythology doesn’t go with comic books, probably because I think of Spiderman or outlandish illustrations. The link to the online comic books is fun, because you’re given a random comic every time you refresh the page. I will be referring back to this link for sure.

This is the images link for Epics of India. Some of the images have descriptions or links to go along with them, which is fun and useful. Most of the images are extremely colorful and vivid, while some are of statues or sculptures. The sidebar on the page is separated into individual characters in Indian mythology and tells you how many images there are of that specific character. Prominent characters have more images, such as Sita, who has 31.

This link takes you to the week 9 readings related to the Mahabharata. Like the Ramayana, we will be focusing on the Mahabharata for a large portion of the semester. We have probably all already experienced a number of these characters from the storybooks. I think it is great that we will are going to spend a lot of time on these two epics and will be reading different perspectives on each one. Experiencing different perspectives on anything in life makes us more open-minded, considerate, and informed humans.

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