Monsoons are a great thing in India. There is no greater emphasis on rain than in anything else. I once, had the opportunity to look at the Zoroastrian Zend Avesta, and read a scholarly article and wiki about the similarities between the religions. There are indeed a lot of similarities and one such similarities I noticed is how much emphasis was given to Mitra over Varuna. I somehow felt like the same text changed their versions as they switched between the Indo-Aryan tribes of the same descent placing emphasis on two different aspects of the nature.
Here is the News post that inspired me to this.
Then I looked into Indian monsoon pattern and noticed that trade winds, through out the time, have dictated history of India right from the Jewish tribes of King Solomon who settled on the banks of Kerala coast to the much later arrival of Portuguese travelers with their missionaries and later colonialists, and countless other Hajj pilgrims, Arab and Dravidian traders through out the timeless domain of history, driven by the "Trade Winds", as they called it.
As pictured above, the Indian monsoon has grown so much on people of India that as time passed, people have literally worshipped them. They place their bets on the whole monsoon thing to arrive on time. And if it doesn't they are screwed , which means a tough year for small and marginal farmers. Sometimes, the farmers might have to migrate, or worse commit suicide to get away from the lack of rains. Sometimes, because of El Nino and La Nino Effects, there seems to be a whole different play of draught and other conditions.
Thanks to the modern developments, including the political and welfare style approach by governments, we are able to sustain a couple rough patches through out the crop pattern. Last year and this year, the rains are on time and tanks, which are major source of water supply where I live, are filled enough. The weather looks amazingly scary and colorful at the same time. Check out the couple of Photos below.
What makes me wonder is that we are so dependent on these monsoons, especially people of India and else where in Africa (my google Search says this), they literally placed their entire emphasis on nature gods, and Vedic gods, who are either prayed in themselves or kept in chain in command to whom people bow down. It makes me wonder a lot of things about it, but most likely one is this : Is this why India is so secular? Is this why India is so fearful of letting its 'Gods' go that, it injected into its culture all the available gods on the planet Earth and made a good Khichdi of all those from time to time !
Are 'Gods' (with an s that is Bold) that dear to us, or the fear of nature that strong enough to make us trust in entities, or conceptions of anything otherwise is simply too abstract and irrational to synthesize by our brain?
Whatever might be our thoughts on it, there is no denying that they have played a huge role in the History of the world and will continue to dictate the fates of scores of population in the future to come.
Here is the News post that inspired me to this.
Then I looked into Indian monsoon pattern and noticed that trade winds, through out the time, have dictated history of India right from the Jewish tribes of King Solomon who settled on the banks of Kerala coast to the much later arrival of Portuguese travelers with their missionaries and later colonialists, and countless other Hajj pilgrims, Arab and Dravidian traders through out the timeless domain of history, driven by the "Trade Winds", as they called it.
As pictured above, the Indian monsoon has grown so much on people of India that as time passed, people have literally worshipped them. They place their bets on the whole monsoon thing to arrive on time. And if it doesn't they are screwed , which means a tough year for small and marginal farmers. Sometimes, the farmers might have to migrate, or worse commit suicide to get away from the lack of rains. Sometimes, because of El Nino and La Nino Effects, there seems to be a whole different play of draught and other conditions.
Thanks to the modern developments, including the political and welfare style approach by governments, we are able to sustain a couple rough patches through out the crop pattern. Last year and this year, the rains are on time and tanks, which are major source of water supply where I live, are filled enough. The weather looks amazingly scary and colorful at the same time. Check out the couple of Photos below.
What makes me wonder is that we are so dependent on these monsoons, especially people of India and else where in Africa (my google Search says this), they literally placed their entire emphasis on nature gods, and Vedic gods, who are either prayed in themselves or kept in chain in command to whom people bow down. It makes me wonder a lot of things about it, but most likely one is this : Is this why India is so secular? Is this why India is so fearful of letting its 'Gods' go that, it injected into its culture all the available gods on the planet Earth and made a good Khichdi of all those from time to time !
Are 'Gods' (with an s that is Bold) that dear to us, or the fear of nature that strong enough to make us trust in entities, or conceptions of anything otherwise is simply too abstract and irrational to synthesize by our brain?
Whatever might be our thoughts on it, there is no denying that they have played a huge role in the History of the world and will continue to dictate the fates of scores of population in the future to come.
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