By way of a post script, a television production of the Mahabarata was done in the 1970s and the BBC screened it among the Saturday morning miscellany of kids' serials, which used to be on, every summer.
Epic battles, fantasy landscapes, internecine plots, Bollywood style acting.
Last time I consulted the wiki, it said the series ran for hundreds of episodes but the BBC either only played a small extract (the adventures of just one character) or they abridged the whole story arc into just half a dozen episodes.
Or my memory is on the blink. I'll read about it in my own time.
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There's a provocative closing paragraph at the end of that Sceptic Dictionary article, I linked to, earlier.
"Creationists, mythohistorians, and extraterrestrialists are in a jihad against belief in evolution where apparently it is one's duty to make the preposterous seem plausible."
Mythohistorians is a word they have coined and is self explanatory. I would only add that it is a bit rich to be dismissive of some Christians, for taking the Bible literally and then start arguing that epic myths, such as the Mahabarat contain grains of literal truth.
I think naomi has skilfully avoided the latter half of that and merely requests more openness to ideas which are off the beaten track.
What we should expect to gain from such straying, I have no idea. Other than satisfy her curiosity, using valid science, during her lifetime.