--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One of the assumptions that I was talking > > > > about previously that we have all been spoon fed is that > because > > a > > > > culture is deep inland it must have been be sea-faring inept. > > This > > > > is unlikely since Tibetans travelled far and wide. Buddhism > > > > naturally spread across Tibet and China for the sole reason > that > > > > they were not really distinct and travelled with ease. > > > > > > They traveled much further than that. There are huge > > > outposts of Tibetan culture in Mongolia and Manchuria > > > and Russia, and evidence that Tibetans once inhabited > > > areas of the Pyrennes. Traveling to spread the dharma > > > is what they *did*. Suggesting that they traveled to > > > North America is certainly not out of the question.>>> > > > > And if the Chinese had those huge ocean going junks and were used > to > > travelling vast distances, then the Tibetan Bhuddists would > > ceratinly have been involved in that due to your statement about > how > > far and wide they were already established. Interesting. Thanks > > > > > > > > The possible link between the Hopis and the Navajos > > > has been suggested by many people, including the Dalai > > > Lama. I don't know whether it has been established > > > or not physically (via DNA tests), but if you knew > > > Tibetan culture that wouldn't even be necessary. They > > > have tales of whole monasteries or villages picking up > > > and "migrating" to another place en masse, via mass > > > reincarnation.>>> > > > > Also, the word Navajo is interesting. It may be related to the > > Sankrti 'Nau'(pronounced with the 'u' almost like a 'v') > > meaning 'ship' which gives us ('Navy, Nautical). So if a race were > > ocean going travellers and it was as natural to them as crossing > > vast deserts by camel was to the desert tribes, then it is highly > > likely that they would call themselves 'The Mariners', which in > > Sanskrit would be the "Nav..." Or those who met them would call > them > > that. > > I think its a stretch to assign linguistic stuff likethat. >>
Well yea ! Of course its a stretch. It was a conservative response to this idea that was mentioned """but if you knew Tibetan culture that wouldn't even be necessary. They have tales of whole monasteries or villages picking up and "migrating" to another place en masse, via mass reincarnation.""" <<< Surely such obvious similarities between > Sanskrit and American languages would have been noted in the > scholarly works? >> There are many. The word 'Niagara' in The native tongue means great waterfall. There is a similar word in Sanskrit that means the same thing. I'll think of the better ones later, but consider this: Place names in the Americas and names of sages and gods in Vedas: Guatamala - Gautama Maya - Maya Canada - Kanada Mperu - Meru Veda - Veda Same Aryan name of God: When Cortes invaded the valley of Mexico he found that the Mexicans - through the chief motive of his great adventure was to destroy their religion and to substitute his own, had the same word for God that he himself had. His own (Spanish) was Dios, from Greek Theos, the Mexican, as Cortes converted it to writing, was Teotl (note: these Dios and Teotl when written down look different, but when spoken are remarkably similar). http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Pacific.htm#Imprint%20of%20Hindu% 20Culture Trilokinath, the Hindu ruler of the three worlds, was known to the Mexicans by the name, until the Spanish conquerors mistakenly changed the name into Tloque Nahuaque. Even Yama, the god of death of Hindu mythology, has found his way to Mexico and Peru, while typically Hindu lotus and chakras motifs adorn the temples Donald A. Mackenzie writes in his book, Myths of Pre-Columbian America : "The doctrine of the World's Ages (from Hindu Yugas) was imported into Pre-Columbian America...the Mexican sequence is identical with the Hindus....The essential fact remains that they were derived from a common source...It would be ridiculous to assert that such a strange doctrine was of spontaneous origin in different parts of the Old and New Worlds." http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Pacific.htm#Imprint%20of%20Hindu% 20Culture Still another scholar, Ambassador Miles Poindexter, a former ambassador of the United States to Mexico, in his two-volume 1930s treatise The Ayar-Incas called the Mayan civilization "unquestionably Hindu." He proposed that primitive Aryan words and people came to America by the island chains of Polynesia. The Mexican name for boat is a South Indian Tamil word, Catamaran, and Poindexter gives a long list of words of the Quichua languages and their analogous forms in Sanskrit. Similarities between the hymns of the Inca rulers of Peru and Vedic hymns have been pointed out. A. L. Krober has also found striking similarities between the structure of Indo-European and the Penutian language of some of the tribes along the northwestern coast of California. Recently, an Indian scholar, B. C. Chhabra,in his Vestiges of Indian Culture in Hawaii has noticed certain resemblances between the symbols found in the petroglyohs from the Hawaiian Islands and those on the Harappan seals. Some of the symbols in the petroglyphs are described as akin to early Brahmi script. http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Pacific.htm#Imprint%20of%20Hindu% 20Culture To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
