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> can they really ambush a human, and push them over a ledge? I would say male adult monkeys in my village can (males are bigger and stronger), although they d
by setum 5y ago
> can they really ambush a human, and push them over a ledge?
I would say male adult monkeys in my village can (males are bigger and stronger), although they don’t. They are fast, agile and acrobatic. Except for well prepared adult humans, monkeys can throw everyone else off a ledge.
Reason so many monkeys exist in India is because they are sacred animals (to Hindus, 80% population). In our village, no one can kill them. The most one can do is throw a stone to scare them away.
- xwolfi 5y agoDo you think this could change ?
- riazrizvi 5y agoPossibly but Hinduism is 4000 years old, so it might be a while before we see that change.
- leephillips 5y agoWhere does the 4000 figure come from?
- JadeNB 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hinduism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hinduism traces the roots of Hinduism as far back as possibly 1900 BC.
- rronalddas 5y agoThe Vedas are supposedly that old
- leephillips 5y agoYes, but (without being a scholar of religion) I had always assumed that Hinduism was far older than its oldest surviving texts, just as Judaism, in some form, is older than whatever year we date the Torah to.
- fault1 5y agoit depends on what you call 'hinduism'. it's one of the world's most heterodox religions and has absorbed a huge amount of cultural tradition from at least 300 languages. The rig veda is probably what most people agree is one of the foundational texts of hinduism, but it dates to about 1500 BC. However, the vedas probably absorbed a lot of earlier cultural tradition from the indus valley civilization, especially worship of Shiva-like deities. How much is however, debated. just like mesopotamia, there was a lot of syncretism.
- riazrizvi 5y agoI imagine that when your career is arts based, you've likely assimilated that society's labels are arbitrary and determined in large part by competitive interests, because there is less of a fundamental truth than they would imply once established. Since this is a software engineering forum, we tend to expect more objectivity in our labels. Ironically when you think about it because software labels are so obviously artificial.
- selimthegrim 5y agoI thought the jury was still out on whether the so called Pasupati seal actually shows Shiva
- phonypc 5y agoMy read is that it's the other way around. i.e. what one could reasonably call Judaism is a good deal younger than the Torah, Hinduism a good deal younger than the Vedas. There are of course traditions within the religions that go back to those writings and further, but take that to its extreme and they all presumably stem from some ur-religion.
- leephillips 5y agoI guess like so many questions it comes down to how you choose to define and name things.
- fault1 5y agoyes, could happen. modernity tends to change culture (and especially homogenization that the interwebs promotes), and india is modernizing rapidly especially cities. culture can change very rapidly. that being said, hanuman (rama's monkey companion) is a important diety in hinduism, and has been worshipped for many thousands of years in india and other parts of southeast asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman#Historical_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman#Historical_development