Rama-sita, Ramayana and things writers add to myth causing later versions to be less accurate to their origin.

Rama-sita, Ramayana and things writers add to myth causing later versions to be less accurate to their origin.
by valpetridis @ 2008-05-24 - 20:02:25
Rama-sita, Ramayana and things writers add to myth causing later versions to be less accurate to their origin.
Another problem that arises in myth as time goes by people rewrite the classic myth and adds things to the story that changes its meaning. Sometimes poets and writers do this to make their version different and worth reading, sometimes they do so to add dramatic flare, esp. if they are trying to write a drama and make it more stage dramatic.A good example of this is Ramayana which tells of the tale of Rama and Sita. Rama ids the incarnation of Vishnu and was born when his mother drank a holy essence. Sita fell in love with him and secretly always knew that he represented God. Rama and Sita go through an adventure that includes a trip through a magic forest. A demon, or as the Bagavagita calls them an evil person damned to suffer many incarnations after death on another lower plain, organises evil armies as Rama organises good people to fight the demons army. Rama and his army triumphs over the evil army and in the original tale he and Sita live happily ever after. However newer versions of this tale include Rama sending Sita away at the end. This was added much later to the tale and has become one of the standard readings of the Ramayana. However this tragic end to the standard story is neither justified by the entire tale nor found in its earlier predecessors.