Some of my views on Hindu Mythology

Why was the ocean churned in Hindu mythology?

In Hindu mythology, the churning of ocean was one of the central events in the ever-continuing struggle between the devas, who were gods, and the asuras, who were demons.
Both the gods and the demons wanted Amrit, the nectar of immortality which would give them the power to live forever. Brahma, the Creator, advised the gods to churn the ocean to obtain Amrit. He told them to use the Mount Meru as the churning stick, and the Serpent Vasuki as the rope that turns the churning stick.
The gods and demons wound the serpent around the mountain, and pulling it this way and that way, they splashed and dashed the ocean up and down and to and fro, and the ocean frothed and bubbled as they churned. The gods and demons continued churning for 100 divine years. As the churning proceeded, wine, milk, and butter were produced.. The ocean gave up many of its treasures as well as deadly poison that Lord Siva swallowed to save the universe from being destroyed.

I could relate this story to two real-time incidents:

1) Tsunami, which happens as a result of the earth quakes(on land surface or mountains) in the deep ocean. The rope is nothing but the cracks on the floor under ocean. The splashing and dashing of the ocean causes heavy waves.

2) Solar ecllipse, the appearance of Moon hidding the Sun was assumed as deadly poison, and slowly the Sun reappears after the ecllipse... the slow movement of Moon was assumed as Lord Siva swallowing the Moon. It is also told as deadly poison because if the ecllipse is seen with naked eye, it will burn the cornea of eyes, relating it to save the universe from being destroyed... Even during ecllipse, heavy tidal waves are created at sea shores due to the gravitational attraction of the sun and the moon. Reappearance of Sun is said as saving the universe from being destroyed, because without Sunlight human existence becomes impossible.

Both these incidents happen severely once in every 100 years.

So if were remove Gods and Demons from the story everything else is real time incidents.

If we are preaching these stories to our children, it will be nice if we could relate them to realtime events than just stories.

P.S: There is also a mountain called Meru in Kenya.