People especially atheists always ask evidence that hindu lores aren't just mythology but history? How can i answer that?
Also did Lord shiva cheat on ma parvati by falling for mohini and even having a baby?
I don't think there is any way for you to convince an atheist that the Hindu epics are real. The mythology vs. history debate is silly. Mythos is a Greek word that means 'utterance'. The Norse word saga also means 'utterance'. History comes from ancient greek which means 'research' and is apparently cognate to the Sanskrit 'veda'. The word we Hindus use for our epics is itihasa (= 'so it happened'). It's impossible to convince an atheist to believe that the epic happened really. But if you still wish to debate with an atheist, you can ask them "what is the highest truth in a value hierarchy". This question is basically an infinite regress type of question, because what you're asking is "what is the fundamental value on which everything is based on". Atheism should deny the existence of this ontological transcendent. Take for example numbers; they're just a value that humans have made up. However, our entire world is held on by the belief in these numbers. Numbers are like the substratum our universe is built on. But numbers one two three four etc. are literally a human invention. The decimal system exists because somewhere along the evolutionary path, vertebrates developed five digits in each of their limbs from the multiple bones in fish fins, and eventually we humans with our ten fingers and toes invented the decimal system. The western atheist position is that how can one believe in imaginary things like a sky father, because we might as well believe in invisible pasta colander. But then these same atheists go on and live in a society held on by numbers invented by humans. So if numbers can be substratum in the visible universe, then what about the invisible universe? Why couldn't there be substratum of substratum, something beyond space, time or even causation, like the eternal Atman and Brahman? Then the next question is that, why do we worship sun, rivers, plants, earth etc. The rationalist positions to animistic/polytheistic traditions has been to analyse it through for example Jungian archetypes. You could say that our ancestors who had fear & respect towards nature, they started revering or worshipping natural elements. Or perhaps when humans "tamed" the fire, the plants, even beasts like aurochs, horses & wolves, it simultaneously gave humans great respect towards a higher power that provided them that. Isn't it curious though that humans across continents and civilisations came up with certain realisations? Like worshipping sun & the waters, or the fire, speech, everything that humanity acquired?
I don't know what to answer to that Shiva and Mohini Avatar question. Imagine looking at Hari-Hara, and instead of having profound philosophical realisation, one thinks about cheating...
