Quote Originally Posted by torchbearer
This definition can never be applied to Hindu Culture because Hindu Shastras are based on Facts and not fiction.
The majority of Hindus will not agree with you, I think. Consider the following:

  • -> Do you believe that solar eclipses occur because a disembodied head swallows the sun, and they end when the sun emerges from the head's severed gullet? Or do you believe that they occur because the moon blocks us from seeing the sun?


  • -> Do you believe that the Milky Way in the sky is actually a large ocean of milk that's floating up there, or do you believe that it is a collection of stars?


In both these cases I believe the latter, and I will therefore call the former a myth. The Puranas sought to express the theology of bhakti in a form that would be easy to understand and implement. They did not seek to record literal truths, and I do not see why Hindus should believe that they do.