Topic on Talk:Cosmic Forces Trio

TBeholder (talkcontribs)

The source of likely headache here is that "Creation - Preservation/Change - Destruction" is the version canonized by The Hindu Reformation, that is XIX century - which is why the actual mythology is not "resulting", it's preceeding this concept, by millenia.
The most obvious of problems is that de facto it left most results of the pre-existing "Trimurti as personifications of Guna" approach all over the place, thus in older sources, folk art and adaptations thereof you run into lots of little things like references to "Shiva the Preserver" (Shiv and the Grasshopper by Rudyard Kipling), etc. It follows that in the purest form the new version is most likely to appear in the foreign sources that aren't based on the originals, but skimmed the cream in volume of two pages "for exotics" and built upon that - as the current list of examples illustrates.

Aside of the fact that both versions are, well, in use, with all this entails.

TBeholder (talkcontribs)

Since the Trio as such seems to be the thing, maybe call them "The Fates Trio"? There don't seem to be very contradictory versions of the Moirai/Parcae.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Feel free to make whatever changes you feel need making. When you do we can launch it.

Jade Shauni (talkcontribs)

The new name of "Cosmic Forces Trio" or "Fates Trio" sounds better, I can say or read it out loud without mispronouncing.

TBeholder (talkcontribs)

To think of it again, "Cosmic Forces Trio" is probably the best, in that usually it's preferable to have a definition too broad and split later if it grows, than to leave a Missing Supertrope - those tend to accrete a spinning disk of disclaimers, natter, misplaced examples and assorted minor mess.