LOL....Bleu, but it is not advisable to compare these books to modern sci-fi. These are ancient books. There are many ancient manuscripts which are well preserved till date! And Hinduism being the oldest surviving religion, has a lot of sacred texts dating back to about 2200 BC, when these were first compiled into books(sanskrit) by people who were pioneers of scholastic philosophy or theology. Earlier the system of handing down religious knowledge from generation to generation was called "shruti" which means "hearing and memorizing". This is how errors & mal practices crept in and the original texts(not texts:because there weren't any, say original matter) were changed.
But all these books were not only about Hindu God's and about worshipping deities. The ancient Hindu books were about the way of living, science, architecture(vaastu), medicine and ancient societal laws(manusmriti).
We even have book on sex called kamasutra which was written by Vatsayan(4th/5th century CE).
But you can compare the hindu mythology/epics like Mahabharata or Ramayana to modern Sci-fi. But then all mythologies are like that. Same goes for Homer's Illiad & Odessy!
LOL....Bleu, but it is not advisable to compare these books to modern sci-fi. These are ancient books. There are many ancient manuscripts which are well preserved till date! And Hinduism being the oldest surviving religion, has a lot of sacred texts dating back to about 2200 BC, when these were first compiled into books(sanskrit) by people who were pioneers of scholastic philosophy or theology. Earlier the system of handing down religious knowledge from generation to generation was called "shruti" which means "hearing and memorizing". This is how errors & mal practices crept in and the original texts(not texts:because there weren't any, say original matter) were changed.
But all these books were not only about Hindu God's and about worshipping deities. The ancient Hindu books were about the way of living, science, architecture(vaastu), medicine and ancient societal laws(manusmriti).
We even have book on sex called kamasutra which was written by Vatsayan(4th/5th century CE).
But you can compare the hindu mythology/epics like Mahabharata or Ramayana to modern Sci-fi. But then all mythologies are like that. Same goes for Homer's Illiad & Odessy!