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Re: Helen of Troy [Re: Suprabha] #17977 - 06/25/02 04:03 AM Edit Reply Quote

Now that is very interesting, about the 'double'. The original was ofcourse Siit� herself, and the double was M�y�siit�. To make things even more complicated: Siit� in her pervious birth was Vedavatii, the real original, who was harrassed by a R�vana. This R�vana was probably the ancestor of the later R�vana in R�ma's time. Vedavatii committed suicide after being touched by the earlier R�vana. Her ashes in a pot reached by sea the capital of king Janaka many centuries later. Those remains took rebirth as the daughter of Janaka of Videha. Actually there's another version of Siit� reaching the kingdom of Janaka: Siit� was the daughter of R�vana of Lank�. In order to marry Mandodarii the daughter of Maya Asura, he had to be childless. So he put the child in the basket in sea, later to reach Janakapura. There are many variations to this theme. Lanka and Troy There are many similarities between the two epics. But that's not amazing when the Turvasus with their many sections like the Yavanas left India to settle in Greece. Two very important cults they took with them: The Hari-Krshna (Hercules) cult and the Shiva cult (Bakchos-Dionysos, both fertility aspects)