Are there scientific enquiries into the legends of religion like gods who shared world with us?

Question

How the history tries to explain their superhuman efforts? Are these superhuman abilities possibly assigned on them by those around ?

Answer 1

Not science, but there are studies. Read some Joseph Campbell, specially Bill Moyer's interviews with him in a book / TV series called The Power Of Myth.

Answer 2

There are many things science can't explain. A functional battery found in the jungles of Mayan or Astec areas of South America made from primitive materials.

A method for bringing water over a mountain that is more elegant and effective than anything created by modern man, that was also found from the Mayan or Astec civiilzations.

Brain surgery in Pharoh's Egypt.

The great Pyramids of Giza and South America.

The fact that hydgroen, electrons and positons always existed in the universe.

All of these things defy scinetific laws or explainations.

What science hasn't got is a video of Jesus walking on Water or Moses talking to a bush that burns but doesn't burn.

Answer 3

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave - a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. -And we- we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.108, Walter Kaufmann transl.

That messy thing called 'mind' has created many destructive things. By far the most destructive of them all is God.

Answer 4

No. Some legends such as gryphons and giant heros can be traced to fossils and the stories that grew up to explain them.

Answer 5

Not really, but there have been sites (like Troy) located based on old myths. It is hard to try to explain things that are exaggerated and there isn't any evidence of.

Answer 6

pretty much non science my friend.

Try checking out Joseph Campell, or Thomas Moore, for their views. Moore is versed in greek mythology.