Re: Etruscans

On 2008-01-17 16:47, kishore patnaik wrote:

> The most significant part of it is there was a famous Daitya called
> Maya, who was a famous architect and engineer being present at the time
> of MBh, who left India for far off places. The traditional dating of
> MBh tallies with the Mayan dating. You cant simply dismiss so much
> similarity between a historical (and architecturally known
> civilization) and so called Mythological legends as merely coincidental.

We can, since the ancient Mayan peoples did not call themselves "Maya".
Their linguistic cousins and descendants have started doing so recently,
presumably to promote the unity of indigenous Guatemalans and Mexicans
speaking different but related languages (related to each other, but
certainly not to Sanskrit :)). Maya(b)' T'an (literaly, 'the speech of
flat lands') is the native name of Yucatec, just one of the Mayan
languages, applied by the Spaniards (and then everybody else) to a group
of linguistically related peoples.

Piotr