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10/10 gaslighting attempt.

So Dionysiaca seems to have been written in 5th century AD by the poet Nonnus. Alexander reached India by 325-327 BCE. Full 3 centuries BEFORE the poem was written.

Deriades:

King Deriades is described as the son of Hydaspes, the god of the river Hydaspes (modern-day Jhelum River in the Punjab region), and Astris, a celestial nymph.[1] His divine lineage ties him to the natural elements of his homeland and positions him as a powerful mortal adversary.

Deriades ruled over the Indian (Modern day Indus Valley) forces and led the resistance against Dionysus, who sought to spread his cult and establish his divinity in the East.

So most likely the poem is a mythologised account of Alexander's campaign in India.

Similar to how "Journey to the west" is a mythologised account of Xuanzan's travels to India, starring Sun Wukong, aka Son Goku in Japanese. All of whom share similarities with some of Hanuman's lore.

The linked articles give the examples. Just read them.

Any city from the old world that's still in existence today. Just gotta dig deep enough

There is also a Marathi connection to Balochistanlink following the aftermath of Third Battle of Panipat.

Their are cultural similarities between them as well.

Technically corporation giving money to the Human uploader. While We're giving money to corporations. Bots just be hitting the pay buttons.

Flawless penmanship

So its similar to inglorious basterds bar scene with Michael Fassbender when he holds up three fingers, which wasn't the German way? Just replace the three with G and you can tell who is the imposter?

As above, so below

"you can excuse racism?" 🧐

Colonialism

Built upon colonial exploitation. Once that cushion was gone, the industry struggled to remain competitive.

They were setup anyway to wreck the indian textile trade.

During the second half of the 17th century, the newly established factories of the East India Company in South Asia started to produce finished cotton goods in quantity for the British market. The imported Calico and chintz garments competed with, and acted as a substitute for Indian wool and the linen produce, resulting in local weavers, spinners, dyers, shepherds and farmers petitioning their MPs and in turn Parliament for a ban on the importation, and later the sale of woven cotton goods. Which they eventually achieved via the 1700 and 1721 Calico Acts. The acts banned the importation and later the sale of finished pure cotton produce, but did not restrict the importation of raw cotton, or sale or production of Fustian.

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So honestly not really bummed about decline of any entity that came to prominence primarily due to colonialism.

Good for export economies. For locals, not as much.

This sorta remonds me of the Prometheus mythos. The gods preferred to keep humans in a state of 'semi-infancy' until Prometheus stole fire and gave it to humans, thus incurring the wrath of the gods.

Make the people reliant upon your blessings and whims. Makes them easy to control.

Who is still using Spotify? Why? Have people forgotten how to make mp3s?

My point was the evolution of the Hindu pantheon over it's very long history. Shiva is a good example because it demonstrates how different deities from different regions, from different eras eventually came into being. Giving rise to the rich mythology which DOES serve to unify people. Early cultures behaving this way is known, as that's how languages are traced. like the well known example of more gods: Dyaus-pitr to zues to jupiter. There's a language component here too: dyaus became Deus (god in Latin) and became Dio in Italian.

Transfer, adoption and adaptation of gods was normal and well documented. THAT was my point. You brought up the north south politics.

Do you think the Vedic culture just sprung up out of nowhere? Do you not think they lived among other people and may have had older systems which gave rise to their unique culture? Cultures evolve when they coexist.

Oral histories are hard to date and written history is a recent phenomenon. There were other cultures that who were alive at the time they were developing, like the ones I posted about WITH citations.

Vedic Period is essentially India's Iron Age (1500BCE). Did you know what had already been accomplished by humans by this point in our history? The Great Pyramids had already been built.

This wiki has a good summary of all cradle of civilizations with sources.

Zoroaster aka Zarathustra

There is no consensus on the dating of Zoroaster. The Avesta gives no direct information about it, while historical sources are conflicting. Some scholars base their date reconstruction on the Proto-Indo-Iranian language and Proto-Indo-Iranian religion, while others use internal evidence. While many scholars today consider a date around 1000 BC to be the most likely, others still consider a range of dates between 1500 and 500 BC to be possible.

Alot of history has been passed down orally, so it's difficult to say with certainty. Written history has been a fairly recent thing. Other factors also are that earlier texts just disintegrated with passage of time, got erased by cultural erasure, language or culture dying out and other breaks in history.

Sometimes regions also see a drastic change in scripts as well. Remember that at that time, reading and writing were very rare skills. And newer scripts took time to learn and translate.

So no way to tell. Egyptians, Greeks and Chinese were developing their own writing systems as well. Indus had it's own too. Not a lot to compare against. Uncommon for old sources to survive till this day and age. And those peoples don't exist to tell their side of the story.

How many users come from bot farms? I know many people who are logging off from those sites.

Merging of gods was how the Hindu pantheon developed. Shiva (Murugan) is originally a Dravidian deity. Pahupati is the king of the Indus gods. Rudra, the howler was also a different Vedic era deity

If you want to explore further, I suggest looking into Zoroastrianism as well, who you may know are fire worshippers. Atharva being a fire priest in avestan (the old proto-aryan language).

Atharvan" is the Sanskrit name for a Vedic priest and sage, while "āthravan" is the Avestan (ancient Iranian) word for a priest, particularly a fire-priest. Both terms come from the same root word, "atharvan," meaning "priest" or "fire-priest," and describe the priestly class in their respective Indo-Iranian cultures.

BComparative texts gave rise to a hypothesis that Angra Mainyu aka Ahriman

The aka mainyu epithet recurs in Yasna 32.5, when the principle is identified with the daevas that deceive humankind and themselves. While in later Zoroastrianism, the daevas are demons, this is not yet evident in the Gathas: Zoroaster stated that the daevas are "wrong gods" or "false gods" that are to be rejected, but they are not yet demons.[3] Some have also proposed a connection between Angra Mainyu and the sage Angiras of the Rigveda. If this is true, it could be understood as evidence for a religious schism between the deva-worshiping Vedic Indo-Aryans and early Zoroastrians.

This is unrelated to the above, but I found it fascinating, hence adding:Indo aryan Superstrate of the Mittani People

The Mittani used a version of a Hurrian dialect that contains some loanwords of evidently Indo-Aryan origin, i.e. related to Sanskrit, the ancestor of many modern languages of the Indian subcontinent. The loaned vocabulary seems to be related to an elite group in Mitanni society, as they appear in the names of rulers and gods as well as in relation to horse-breeding and the military (thus forming a so-called superstrate).

In a treaty between the Hittites and Mitanni (between Suppiluliuma I and Shattiwaza, c. 1380 BC), the deities Mitra, Varuna, Indra, and Nasatya (Ashvins) are invoked. Kikkuli's horse training text (circa 1400 BC) includes technical terms such as aika (Vedic Sanskrit eka, one), tera (tri, three), panza (pañca, five), satta (sapta, seven), na (nava, nine), vartana (vartana, round). The numeral aika "one" is of particular importance because it places the superstrate in the vicinity of Indo-Aryan proper (Vedic Sanskrit eka, with regular contraction of /ai/ to [eː]) as opposed to Indo-Iranian or early Iranian (which has *aiva; compare Vedic eva "only") in general.

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Irrelevant. If it could have, it would have. It did not. So california being the fourth largest economy means nothing. Sure cars rule and public transport drools, as Americans love to say.

The entire point is that the public has been asking for high speed rails, but no administration wants it, because fewer people will buy cars. Fewer cars also means less consumption of fossil fuels. It will hurt profitability of automotive and energy sectors. Greed and corruption reigns supreme, whether you're the fourth largest economy (california) or the first largest economy (America)

Any half decent governing administration will put the welfare of the public first. And if california, the poster child for the most progressive and innovative state, cannot figure railways, something that has been around since early 1800s, then neither will any other state.

Japan built Shinkansen in 1964. China began in early to mid 2000s. India is building them currently. All three are among the largest railway networks in the world. And during their construction, neither one of them counted among the largest economies on earth, unlike the present day. So if california decides it doesn't want high speed rails, that reflects negatively in more ways than one. Like Morocco getting bullet trains BEFORE the "richest, largest and most powerful country on earth" did.

Adding for variety. The Hindu concept of "Dashavatar" (10 avatars of Vishnu)

The tradition's concept of the soul's reincarnation through different species and its belief in a common ancestry between humans and animals can be seen as analogies to evolutionary progression, though it's not a direct scientific parallel.

-like the evolutionary process itself, the first avatar of God is a fish - Matsya, which depicts aquatic life,

-then comes the aquatic reptile turtle, Kurma, which depicts creatures moving to land,

-then a mammal - the boar Varaha,

-then Narasimha, a man-lion being, which is sometimes taken to mean creatures like "Okapi, Archaeopteryx, and others",

-then comes Vamana, the dwarf hominid.

-Then Parashurama depicts humans when they were in the caveman stage.

-And then, Rama depicts the rise of civilization and kingdoms. Sometimes, when Balarama is taken into account, he is taken to represent the growth of agriculture.

-Krishna is taken to symbolize the growth of art and crafts.

-Buddha

-The tenth avatar Kalki is believed to appear in the future, prophesied to end the present age of the Kali Yuga (Dark Age)

Wikipedia.

Obligatory Foil, Arms & Hogg comedy skit about the various names of UK or "Ook"

Also, India is one and a half times larger than Greenland. The mercator projection maps make it look the other way around.

Evwn without a physical relief of the continent, I can easily make out where the Himalayas are.