On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:50 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This all falls into Utopian thinking, by definition, an
> impossibility.
As does, in my opinion, all of the talk about the
golden "Vedic Age." There is no historical evidence
that such an age ever existed. IMO It's just "backwards
fantasy" in the same way that "ages of enlightenment"
are "forward fantasies."
Marija Gimbutas would have called you on that one. :-)
Interestingly Indian pundits are arguing today over the antiquity of
this "idea". Some argue that it is an idea that was "backdated". In
other words, the idea is newer than what it claims to describe. Some
features, such as precession, have been reliably dated to about 900
CE. The "famous" verses in the Surya Siddhanta (treatise on Hindu
astronomy) which describe precession are widely believed to be
inserted later.
