The Story Of The Tain And The Mah Ā Bh Ā Rata

Similarly, McCandless and Siddhartha have a relationship with their family, only differing in the slightest way. Siddhartha wants to begin a journey to find himself and become

Warfare was an integral part of the Native American’s culture, thus preparation for war involved preparing spiritually and mentally. They relied on rituals and visions as a way to gain power and dominate their enemies. Success in a war highly depended on spiritual power, called war medicine, which helped warriors gain courage to fight. For example, “young men fasted and prayed in the hope of experiencing a vision in which a sacred helper or spiritual guardian appeared to them” (Calloway 71). In addition to these practices, warriors highly trusted their medicine bundles which would be filled with sacred objects.

Despite how miserable Hell or the world below a world may seem, there can still be a light at the end of the tunnel. However, the light cannot be reached easily; it requires hard-work, determination, and even getting knocked down. As told in the Tewa Creation story, a man is finally allowed to explore the world above his own. Almost immediately, he meets a group of animals, a species he has never seen before:

When family traditions or arguments are started, they often continue on for a long while, and most of the time, they do more harm than good. In “The Interlopers” by Saki, two neighbors go into the forest to fight to the death over the land they both think they deserve. And in “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, two neighbors have to rebuild a wall between their lands every spring, even when one of the neighbors thinks it’s not necessary. Saki and Frost use conflict, metaphors, and characterization to convey that family traditions sometimes create barriers that divide people and cause unnecessary hatred.

Often, in a morally ambiguous culture, ideologies contradict one another—however, the basis of cultural values merge these various beliefs into one cohesive creed. Throughout The Tain, ideals of the morally ambiguous culture of Ireland present the considerations of its citizens and the characteristics which possess value to them. Many of the heroes, who manage to leave behind a legacy strong enough to appear in The Tain, demonstrate themselves as worthy heroes who represent principles that the Irish hold dear. However, the two heroes, Cuchulainn and Ferdia, display the moral vagueness of Irish values and epitomize the cultural standards during the time of the epic in the greatest sense. These foster brothers, trained under the same

In Hindu mythology there are a plethora of stories of how a tradition disintegrated entire families. In an ancient kingdom, a king had two wives, one with three children, the other with two. The tradition the royalty adhered to was that when the king dies, the first queen must be incinerated along side of him. To their dismay the King Pandu passed on early, therefore taking the life of Queen Madri and leaving two children, Sahadeva and Nakula, without their true mother and father, only a stepmother. Time passed and the family continued their grieving, forgetting

In The Tain, there is a lot of different conflicts throughout the story. These conflicts were able to get the story going. In The Tain there was a lot of Man v Man. The first conflict dealing with man v man, would be the whole reason why the story happens, which is Medb and her husband, Ailill. The reason why this is a conflict is because it lets the story take off. The conflict between Medb and Ailill was a very trivial reason, it all started while Medb and Ailill were in bed and Ailill said, “It is true what they say love, it is well for the wife of a wealthy man.”, which started the debate of who I had more than the other. “…Ailill said. No one has more property or jewels or precious things than I have, and I know it. Then the lowliest of their possessions were brought out to see who had more property…” (The Tain 54).

The comparisons and contrasts of the Cain and Abel narrative and The Bhagavad Gita displays the harrowing fact that although the natures of the disputes may differ, the trend of conflict within families resonates to this day throughout all eras, cultures, and

This sort of intermingling led to the Indian warrior epic “Bhagavad-Gita” expanding the warrior ethos to a loftier plane - from the war against one’s neighbor to an internal struggle to reach one’s better nature as Arunja, the Gita’s hero, battles against enemies whose names can be translated as greed, sloth, and selfishness – all moral weaknesses that must be overcome.

Where the Huns originated from has been a hot Topic for centuries. Some Historians believe they came from either China, Mongolia, or far eastern Russia. According to —- “The Huns, especially those who migrated to the west may have a combination of central Asian Turk, Mongolic, and Ugric stocks”. Mundzuk, the father of Attila, was brothers to both king Octar and Rugila who ruled over the Hunnic empire in the fifth century. Two relatives ruling was common among the Huns, it was not required, but it has appeared many times over Hunnic history. The year of Attila’s birth is not known, but many historians estimate it to between the 390s and the the beginning of the 5th century.

The second problem is that there a huge hierarchy in the family. Fathers are at the top whereas sons are at the bottom in the hierarchy. In some situations, this hierarchy deters the relationship among the family members. For example, father with make any decision without discussion to other family members. Even there is a wrong decision, others cannot challenge him. And the father would stand to his decision even he know he did a wrong decision later in order to maintain his status. Therefore, the family cannot operate efficiently and sometimes make a wrong decision.

This joint family, like any social organization, must face problems such as acceptable division of work, relationships and specific family roles. These familial relationships are managed on the basis of a secular hierarchical principle. In fact, all Indians owe respect and obedience to the head of the family, who usually is the father or the oldest man of the family community. In The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder by Nanda and Gregg, it is explained that, “females [are] placed under the perpetual guardianship of first their fathers and elder brothers, then their husbands.” (Nanda & Gregg 22) Thus, all the spending decisions, studies and profession, or marriage, are exclusively the responsibility of the father after the possible discussions with the other men of the family. Age and sex are the basic principles of this hierarchical system. The eldest sons enjoy greater unchallenged authority than their cadets. Of course men have more authority than women, but older married women have an important role within the family. In fact, the authority of a woman depends on the rank of her husband inside the group. Traditionally, the wife of the patriarch rules over domestic affairs and has considerable power over the other women in the community, especially her daughters- in-law.

As displayed in these stories, there is not always a mutual agreement within the family about several situations. Even I have faced conflict within my family, while I was growing up a time or two. Whether the issue involved something that you felt wasn’t fair or it was simply because you were told to do something in which you did not want to abide; the fact remains in every culture, family, life, or relationship, there will come a time where a conflict will arise.

Beaton, Norris, and Pratt (2003) support this by claiming that unresolved issues do not necessarily cause tension in the family. “From our perspective, conflict refers to those issues in relationships that couples overtly verbally or nonverbally express continually” (Beaton, Norris, & Pratt, 2003, p. 144). Although they focus on intergenerational communications within the family, they point out that unresolved issues concerning intergenerational differences can create problems in marital relationships. So it is more important to focus on reasons why individuals choose to create continuous conflict, and why it is so important to impose personal opinions and beliefs on other people. Understanding what determines human behavior is the only way to understand why

“They both have the same talent of anger, those black, murderous fits of anger you only see in brothers, sister, mothers. My elder brother can’t bear not being able to do evil freely, to be boss over it not only here but everywhere. My younger brother can’t bear having to look on helpless as this horror, at what his elder brother is like” (Duras,61)