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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Mutants and Hindu mythology

Aren’t a handful of the mutants depicted in the X-men comics amazingly similar to the characters in Hindu mythology? I certainly think so. Here are some of the similarities I found:
Wolverine, Sabretooth – Similar to Narasimha, Hanuman, Jambavan..
Cyclops – Doesn’t Shiva have an eye that emits flame?
Storm – Indra controls nature
Rogue – Vaali absorbs other’s strength
Angel - Jatayu
A lot of characters in Hindu mythology change shape like Mystique, move objects like Jean Gray, walk through walls like Nightcrawler..

The X-Men 3 should be a nice watch. Waiting for the weekend to watch it.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's because almost every possible story idea and plot configuration has been lapped up by ancient Indians before the rest of the world learnt to read.

Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:05:00 AM  

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