Hindu Puranas state that Sage Agastya was ordered by Lord Shiva to proceed to the South to rectify the balance of the Earth as it tilted down in the south because of the congregation of Devas and people of the earth in the North, Himalayas to attend His (Shiva’s)  marriage with Parvati.

Accordingly Sage Agasthya traveled down from the North to the South and had the Earth’s balance restored.

Is this a fantasy?

Hinduism narrates events and philosophy in two ways.

One is stating facts as they are, if in its opinion we are capable of understanding it.

For example the details on Astrology or the events related to the Ithihasas, Ramayana, Mahabharata.

In other cases they allude to events by interesting legends, like saying that there is Chanda Loka(world of the Moon) to convey a stage of spiritual development in Pranayama.

It is interesting to note that these two…