Every epic has a supernatural element in it that interlaces itself with the human element in the story.
In our Ramayana, too, the supernatural element plays a very important part in the action of the story. But it is, as is natural, of a character different from that of the western epics.
In the epic Rakshasas are beings of enormous power and size and should be, strictly speaking, labeled as preternatural beings. Ravana has ten heads. Trishiras has three heads. Some other Rakshasas and Rakshasis have heads of horses, wolves, jackals, lions, etc. They can fly through the air with or without aerial chariots. They hold other worlds than this terrestrial world in subjection to themselves.
Ravana, the king of Lanka, possesses some very extraordinary powers.The God of Death and Varuna have to acknowledge defeat at his hands. The sun and the moon, and fire and wind, obey his every wish. The very seasons obey him and come and go at the slightest expression of his will.
It is said that Ravana had six airports with many other mythological flying aircraft, vimanas, and chariots that he won from Gods and other kings in the battles.
1. Weragantota in Mahiyangana: In the Sinhalese language, this word means a place for an aircraft to land.
2. Thotupola Kanda at Hoton Plains: The word Thotupola means a port, a place that one touches during one’s journey. Kanda means rock. Thotupola Kanda is flat land over a rocky range at a height of 6,000 feet above sea level. After Ravana kidnapped Goddess Sita, he landed here.
3. Usangoda on the southern coast
4. Wariyapola in Kurunegala
5. Wariyapola in Mattale: the word Wariyapola is said to have been derived from Watha-ri-ya-pola, meaning place for landing and takeoff of aircraft.
6. Gurulupotha in Mahiyangana: Gurulupotha in Sinhalese means parts of birds, indicating this to be an aircraft hangar or repair center.
Experts claim Ravana had a secret code that opened a portal from earth to space.
In our Ramayana, too, the supernatural element plays a very important part in the action of the story. But it is, as is natural, of a character different from that of the western epics.
In the epic Rakshasas are beings of enormous power and size and should be, strictly speaking, labeled as preternatural beings. Ravana has ten heads. Trishiras has three heads. Some other Rakshasas and Rakshasis have heads of horses, wolves, jackals, lions, etc. They can fly through the air with or without aerial chariots. They hold other worlds than this terrestrial world in subjection to themselves.
Ravana, the king of Lanka, possesses some very extraordinary powers.The God of Death and Varuna have to acknowledge defeat at his hands. The sun and the moon, and fire and wind, obey his every wish. The very seasons obey him and come and go at the slightest expression of his will.
It is said that Ravana had six airports with many other mythological flying aircraft, vimanas, and chariots that he won from Gods and other kings in the battles.
1. Weragantota in Mahiyangana: In the Sinhalese language, this word means a place for an aircraft to land.
2. Thotupola Kanda at Hoton Plains: The word Thotupola means a port, a place that one touches during one’s journey. Kanda means rock. Thotupola Kanda is flat land over a rocky range at a height of 6,000 feet above sea level. After Ravana kidnapped Goddess Sita, he landed here.
3. Usangoda on the southern coast
4. Wariyapola in Kurunegala
5. Wariyapola in Mattale: the word Wariyapola is said to have been derived from Watha-ri-ya-pola, meaning place for landing and takeoff of aircraft.
6. Gurulupotha in Mahiyangana: Gurulupotha in Sinhalese means parts of birds, indicating this to be an aircraft hangar or repair center.
Experts claim Ravana had a secret code that opened a portal from earth to space.
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