Hi Monk
I'm sorry for the length of this, but I can't think of a better way of doing it.
Here is where Marduk said the writing looked Indian:
Sumerian cuneiform is so called because Cunei is latin for wedge
so its writing done with a wedge shaped stylus
the pokotia inscription isn't wedge shaped and it does look very very indian
http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewt ... sc&start=0
Secondly, re your request: “if you don’t mind, provide some links”. Unfortunately, that may be difficult. I’ve been researching around all this stuff way before the internet was even invented. So I’m not one of those Googledotcom.Phds who goes chasing will ‘o wisps around the web. Imho, you can make a case for anything, even black really being white, that way.
A lot of my research is either in the hundreds of books that I’ve got piled up here, or in papers, or in my head. Granted, there are sometimes web pages these days, but by no means always and in this particular case, I’m not currently aware of any.
Anyway, I can give you some stuff that I’ve found on my computer from replies to similar questions that I’ve given on other forums.
But please understand that this is just one theory – and there’s not enough evidence to make a case for it, by any means. So it’s best just enjoy it under the category ‘food for thought’.
So, once upon a time ......(sorry!)
During Vedic times (3,000 ish BC) one of the great architects is said to be someone called Mayan Danava. He is said to be responsible for one of the four core Vedic books, the Yajur-veda.
Mayan Danava was said to be not only a great architect. He was also an astronomer and was the original author of the Surya Siddhanta, the Vedic star book which dates astronomical events as early as 8,000 BC. Also, he was a great navigator.
Danava just means “of the Danu tribe”. The Anus and the Danus were the first tribes we think left India and most possibly diffuse the culture outwards beyond Asia and into Scandinavia and northern Europe.
Some Vedic researchers have come up with a quite plausible theory that the Anus and Danus were pushed out of India as the Purus (and most notably the Bharata tribe) extended themselves west across India from the east. Some say the Purus – who are thought to be the authors of the other three Vedic books, the Rig, Sama and Atharva - were escaping the drying up Sarasvati river. Others that they were following the Soma, the psychotropic plant they used for their religious rites.
But there is also a school of thought that says that Mayan Danava “went bad” and fell from the “pure Vedic ways”, that the Yajur-veda is actually meant for ‘darker rites’ and that that is why he and his tribe of Danus had to leave India.
Some call him the ‘architect of demons. But it has to be said here that the Indians had a problem with their demons and what were originally, in the four core books of the Vedas, good spirits (the asuras), suddenly became demons in the later Puranic literature.
Anyway, Mayan Danava was an expert navigator - so it would have been no problem for him to lead his people east to what’s now known as South America and then these peoples named themselves after him, as the Maya.
Jwala Prasad Singha in “The Sphinx Speaks” says that when the Maya Danava and the Danus were banished from India, they most likely fled to South America by way of the land-bridges that were provided by the Lemurian continent.
Others have suggested by the way of the Aleutian Islands, or the islands of the South Pacific. Between the coasts of Peru to India are two westerly ocean currents, south of the equator. They go north of the Philippines and on through Indonesia. Another ocean current from Japan goes east toward Mexico.
There are, in fact, all sorts of theories as to how they got there.
Mr J Alden Mason, who spent most of his life from 1917 to 1957 in the study of research in archaeology, anthropology, ethnology and folklore of the American Indians, wrote in his “The Ancient Civilisations of Peru”, that:
“The American Indian physique type is fundamentally similar to the Asiatic and obviously a subgroup of the latter.
“Transoceanic migrations to America have always been a favourite creed of those with the will to believe, but until quite recently, anathema to all reputable American anthropologists. However, ignoring the mythical “Lost Continent of Mu”, evidence of Trans-Pacific contacts are strong enough to be almost convincing to many good anthropologists... there are many curious and close resemblances in cultural elements between several regions in mainland America and Polynesia, Melanesia and South-eastern Asia that are difficult to account for on other grounds than historical contact.”
Of course, he wrote that before we knew much about genes, or how to study them, so that might now be out of date....I haven’t been focussing much on this area lately to find out.
Among my papers on this, I also have notes on Mayan temple structures, and religious idols and practices that have more than a whiff of the Vedic about them, if anyone is still interested. But it will have to be for another day ....
I’ve also been studying modern-day Indian shamanism in South America and many of the rites, which they say have been handed down for millennia, could be compared to Vedic rites. But then, on the other hand, so could the shamanic rites of the North American Indians, the Australian Aborigines and the Siberian and Laplander shamans, so it doesn’t really prove anything.
Beagle, I'd love to talk to about Indus seals, but heavens know when I will find the time.
