ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to explain how knowledge in its mythical, narrative and artistic ramifi cations is related with the feminine. Episteme is that of the feminine. Consequently one may discourse that knowledge is feminine while looking at how the goddesses represent various ideas, concepts and metaphors of cognition in narratives, rituals, paintings and prayers, and many such cultural modes. This chapter thus builds on arguments that knowledge is feminine in South Asian mythical and religious imagination. The second part of the chapter delves into the general patterns of thinking and believing in the region. One of the very signifi cant psychological postures is to conceptualize the supernaturals as transfi gures. Believers and devotees and visitors and readers do not take such supernaturals with fi xed identities. Another visible posture is that people of the region live with the myths. Facts and mythical narratives, human history and supernatural imagination arguably do not have differences. The ideological posture of the male in constructing the women in culture of facts and mythical imagination is further signifi cant aspect of social behaviour.
