Assignment #4
1. On your own, read the E-res assignment, "The Parade of Ants."
2. With your partner discuss the following issues:
- What are the relationships between the deities Indra, Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu? And the brahmin boy and
the hermit?
- What is revealed in the myth about time?
- What are the implications for how gods and humans should act?
- How does this myth fit with the theories of myth we have discussed so far in Cunningham and Eliade?
3. Write a 1-2 page paper describing your discussion.