Perhaps nowhere on earth myth features so prominently in the beliefs of the people as it does in Nepal. For Nepal has millions of myth-ridden gods and goddesses, mighty snow-clad mountains - some of them the very embodiment of the gods and goddesses themselves. Added to this, are the rivers and valleys - each of them dotted with a legendary myth of their own. Not even the planetary system in the universe escapes these myths. In- deed myth in Nepal amounts to a lively legend which manifests itself in the folklores of its diversified ethnic commu- nities. That is why even a layman in Nepal is a great story-teller, be it a part of a myth he has heard or something of his own coinage.
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