
Churning the Milky Ocean
The churning of the Ocean of Milk was an elaborate process. Mount Mandaranchal was used as churning rod and Vasuki, the King of Serpents, became the churning rope. The gods held the tail of the snake while the demons (Asuras) held the head end of the snake and they pulled on it alternately causing the mountain to rotate which in turn churned the ocean. However, once the mountain was placed on the ocean, it began to sink. Vishnu in his second incarnation, in the form of a turtle Kurma, came to their rescue and supported the mountain on his shell back.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudra_manthan
Dark matter
For every kg of material made up from atoms like the ones we have in our bodies, or which make up the stars, there are up to 20kg of something completely different, whose principal quality is that it has never been actually observed directly by scientists.
Which is why they call it dark matter. But they know it is there because its effect on the movements of galaxies can be weighed. It has been noted that the names "dark matter" and "dark energy" serve mainly as expressions of human ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with terra incognita.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
If 96% of the Universe is Terra Incognita, then maybe a story about the churning of the Ocean of Milk is just as valid as a Cosmology?
"The Universe does not exist out of
Atoms, It exists out of Stories"


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