So I was rereading pjo (i needed the comfort read coz my boards, kinda like the SATs are going on😭) and I noticed that there are waaaayyy too many similarities between greek mythology and Hindu mythology. So I've decided to write about that instead of studying. Here it goes...
Zeus/Indra : ok they are literally the same deity. Both are the kings of gods, are gods of the sky, use a lightning bolt as a weapon and have giant egos which are set off by the tiniest of things.
Athena/Saraswati : Both are the godesses of wisdom and knowledge, but the more interesting thing is that both had very unusual births (Saraswati was born when Brahma split his body into two) and both were "birthed" by their fathers.
Hades/ Yamraj : Yamraj also coincides with Thanatos coz he's both the god of death and the king of the dead. Just like Hades, he's actually considered to be a really good god despite being associated with death.
Styx/Vaitarani : This river is said to separate the realm of the living from that of the dead. Here too, a fee is required to be given to the ferryman to cross the river.
Icarus/Sampati : now these two are very similar but also very different at the same time. Now the myth goes like this. Jatayu and Sampati are brothers (both are human-vulture hybrids) and were flying in the sky. But Jatayu became reckless and started flying too close to the Sun. Sampati tried to save him and in the process, his wings got burnt off and he fell to the ground. So Jatayu was flying too high like Icarus, but it's Sampati who actually pays the price for his little brother and falls. In a way, they both come together to make up Icarus. Also, Sampati doesn't die, although he's never able to fly again.
Hermes/Narada : Both are the messengers of the gods and are extremely cunning and are tricksters and love drama just a liiiiiittle too much.
Orpheus/Savitri : Both are people who's lovers died, both were unable to deal with this, both went to the underworld and pleaded with the god of dead to return their lovers. Only difference is that Savitri was actually successful in getting her husband back.
The trinity/ the trimurti : Both of these are the three "main" or most powerful of the gods. In Hinduism this concept goes even further by saying that the trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) are even above the gods.
There are also Hindu counterparts for literally every single Greek god and I can't list them all here. But I really love that in both these mythos, the gods are treated as very flawed and with very human qualities, rather than being absolutely perfect. This just really makes them very accessible according to me. All in all, maybe all polythestic religions just have the same gods in different guises, who knows🤷♀️
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