u/nishitd

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I may go to the store opening at Nexus Koramangala Mall. People interested in the meetup?

First of all, thank you everyone for your input on the last week's community discussion post and your feedback everywhere. After considering everyone's input we have a new policy on the buy-and-sell posts on the subreddit.

Going forward, we are going to have a weekly buy-and-sell thread every Monday and it will be pinned at the top of subreddit. All the posts about selling will have to be posted in the pinned thread. Posting outside the thread will lead to IMMEDIATE BAN.

Having said that, I do believe Lego is as much about community as buying a new set. Lego users community largely benefit from exchanging and getting started with used lego. I'll allow rare exceptions for sell, if you're willing to sell used lego for community members. However, such lego or sets have to be at least half price than what's available on market ("market price" will be what's the cheapest average price during sales on various well known websites, not MRP). If you think your sell post fits the criteria, please DM mod team and we can allow it in some cases. Hope that's clear.

I'll also try to make a page with clear guidelines that's helpful to new users on subreddit wiki in coming days.

Anyone watched it? Thoughts?

We recently celebrated 5,000 members milestone on the subreddit. As the community grows bigger, I'd like to know if you have more suggestions for the subreddit.

Particularly, share your ideas about Buy/Sell posts. While I have some thoughts on this, I'd love to hear your thoughts first before formulating guidelines around it. So if you have thoughts, speak up.

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While this is sad, it was definitely not a surprise. They released this movie very quickly without any promotion or awareness, alongside The Odyssey and Spider-man. Bound to get buried.

Last year I read The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation) and as I was reading it, I was quite fascianted by the final act where Odysseus proves himself by accomplishing a fine archery skill. (This is also portrayed in Nolan's film).

I am sure many others, like me, would have immediately drawn a parallel to similar swayamwar rituals in our own epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata. In Ramayana, Rama breaks Shiva's bow thus earning Sita's hand in marriage and in Mahabharata, Arjun pierces fish's eye and thus winning Draupadi's hand in the marriage. Similarities are quite interesting. There are a few possible explanations, so I would like to know your thoughts, as well as, any academic insights on this if anyone is aware.

#Simplest explanation: Independent evolution (also most likely)

Archery was considered an elite skill in those days. While soldiers might be using archery, fine skills like precision archery were probably domain of elite few. Thus for a wedding of a royal, this automatically eliminates common people and only royal people can accomplish such tasks. So as an author, it's a nautral tendency to develop such a test for marriage. It's likely that authors of these epics came to this plot point. As to whether such rituals existed in real life? Hard to say.

#Cultural exchange between Greeks and Indo-Aryans

This one gets messier. The Odyssey was composed around 8th century BCE. Ramayana and Mahabharata also have an oral tradition overlapping with this era though it's hard to say when exactly these swayamvars were added to this epics purely from timeline purposes. It's possible that one of the authors were inspired by the others as India and Greek did have cultural exhcnage during Alexander era (around 3rd-4th century BCE?). But it's hard to nail down whether the influence goes from Greece to India or vice-versa.

#Shared Proto-Indo-European heritage

This, to me, is least likely but at least possible. Much like shared PIE gods, it's possible that there's a hint or a shred of common PIE mythology, where such a ritual takes place. I say this is unlikely because I am not sure how advanced or fine-tuned archery and related weapons were in the PIE era to have such a mythology.

What do you think? Share your thoughts.

I hope the film is good. Let's go!

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