Moving Forward (or backward?) from Indus Valley Civilisation

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Dear All,

 

I think it was interesting to know from the previous thread that

there is not enough research on ancient Indian history and many of

the " facts " are biased or distorted.

 

This made me bring out a book that was recommended by someone but

which i never got to read because of its thickness. It is

called " Fingerprints of the Gods " by Graham Hancock. Despite the

size very few pages are devoted to India. So u all are right, we

have looked at India and Indian history generally from the Western

perspective.... and therefore missed its true significance (perhaps).

 

The book is described as " An intellectual detective story..(which)

directs probing questions at orthodox history presenting disturbing

new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.

 

Accurate ancient maps that show the world as it last looked during

the Ice Age thousands of years before any civilisation capable of

making such maps is supposed to have exised...Evidence of the

devastating cataclysms that shook the earth when the Ice Age came to

an end....Extraordinary scientific and astronomical information

encoded into prehistoric myths...The incredible feat of the

construction of the great pyramids of Egypt and of the megalithic

temples on the Giza plateau...The mysterious astronomical alignments

of the pyramids and the Great Sphynx...The myths of Viracocha and

Quetzalcoat!...The pyramids of the Sun and the Moon in Mexico...The

doomsday calendar and eerie memories of the ancient Maya...The

warning form Hopi of Arizona "

 

Yes, very few reference are to India, but the fact remains that

these ancient civilisations are not unique to India. What is amazing

is that many other ancient civilisations perhaps shared the same

astrological and other such knowledge and there was a common thread

running thru these...sometimes thru myths and sometimes in other

ways:

 

" ..When Pied Piper turns up both in the German myth of Hamelin and

in Mexico long before Columbus, and is linked in both places to

certain attributes like the color red, it can hardly be a

coincidence...Likewise, when one finds numbers like 108 or 9X13

appearing in the Vedas, in the temples of Angkor, in Babylon, in

Heraclitus' dark utterances, and also in the Norse Valhalla, it is

not accident..... "

 

" There are...10800 bricks in the Agnicyana, the India fire altar.

There are 10800 stanzas in the Rigveda,...Each stanza is made of 40

syllables with the result that the entire composition consists of

432,000 syllables...no more no less. And in the Rigveda I:164 (a

typical stanza) we read the '12=spoked wheel in which 720 sons of

Agni are established....In the Hebrew Cabala there are 72 angels

through whom the Sephiroth (divine powers) may be approached, or

invoked, by thos who know the names and numbers,.Rosicrucian

tradition speaks of cylces of 108 years (72 plus 36) according to

which the secret brotherhood makes its influence felt. Similarly

number 72 and its permutations and subdivisions are of great

significance to the Chinese secret societies known as Triads... "

 

Research acquires such great significance and romance when it comes

to " discovering " things shrouded in mystery....but then as Shreenadh

keeps reminding us, pitfalls are many in any such searches, if we

dont go to the original source of evidence.

 

Someone compared the internet forums of these days to the way the

ancient peope were learning things - very often thru discussions.

 

Very often many things have to be unlearned before true learning can

start....

 

Thanks, all of u for generating thoughts!

 

Love,

Vinita