Dear Jeyamohan,
I watched your video on Murugan, and I found it deeply thought-provoking. The idea that gods first emerged as images in the minds of ancient human beings, even before they had learned to cook food or properly clothe themselves, is a fascinating and original way of looking at the origins of religious imagination.
What I particularly appreciated was the way you developed this idea through a series of varied pieces of evidence. You are not presenting it merely as an interesting theory; you are connecting it with what we know about the earliest stages of human culture, imagination and the formation of symbolic thought. The evidence you bring together is quite convincing and makes one look at the idea of Murugan from an entirely different perspective.
Usually, when we think about gods and religion, we begin with established myths, temples, rituals and literary traditions. Your approach seems to go much further back—to the moment when the human mind itself began to create images of powers beyond the immediately visible world. That makes the discussion much more interesting.
I also liked the fact that you did not treat Murugan merely as a religious figure belonging to a particular tradition. You seem to be asking a much larger question: how did the human mind begin to imagine gods at all? That question gives the discussion a universal dimension.
The video has made me think about Murugan, and indeed about religion itself, in a new way. I hope you will continue this line of thought in greater detail. There seems to be a whole world of ideas here that could be explored further.
With regards,
Mahadevan
