talk about obscure*

[defenestrator_]

I'm a geek. I'm using a genealogy program (and why is it an A in genealogy?) not to track my own family, but to try to map the relationships between all the gods, demons, warriors, sages, vanaras (monkey people) etc. in the Ramayana. http://dictionary.reference.com/ ( Read more... )

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[maes]

What genealogy software are you using?

[defenestrator_]

Legacy 5.0 trial version.
There's lots I like about it, but i'm still not sure how to denote things like a child born of Brahma's thought or who's a devotee of which god...
I'm beginning to realize that scholars have probably have been trying to do this for eons....

[defenestrator_]

I think I'm giving up. How on earth do I link up someone who was born from the mixing of two men's sperm in a pot? Or Brahma sneezing??