ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how knowledge in its mythical, narrative and artistic ramifications is related with the feminine. It delves into the general patterns of thinking and believing in the region. One of the very significant psychological postures is to conceptualize the supernaturals as transfigures. The chapter argues that knowledge is feminine in South Asian mythical and religious imagination. It delves into the general patterns of thinking and believing in the region. The epistemology of the feminine in mythical and artistic discourse contradicts practical social situation of the women. The social identity of women in South Asia is generally defined in terms of absence or marginalization around the spaces of home, family and ritual spaces. The associationism between social women and mythical women builds a consistent coherence. In regard to the idea of spaces in society and myths, women are associated with home and labour, and they have mythical correspondences in forms of Sati and Parvati, and also Ganga.
