Perhaps nowhere on earth myth features so
prominently in the beliefs of the people as it does in Nepal.
For Nepal has millions of myth-ridden gods and goddesses,
mighty snow-clad mountains - some of them the very embodiment
of the gods and goddesses themselves. Added to this, are the
rivers and valleys - each of them dotted with a legendary
myth of their own. Not even the planetary system in the universe
escapes these myths. In- deed myth in Nepal amounts to a lively
legend which manifests itself in the folklores of its diversified
ethnic commu- nities. That is why even a layman in Nepal is
a great story-teller, be it a part of a myth he has heard
or something of his own coinage.
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