Re: India first (Was: Etruscans)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:

>
> Wild , baseless and blatantly needless speculation on my

personality and

> motives.

OK, then what are your motives? And, for the record, I said nothing
about your personality. Re-read my post.

> That there is some Hindu influence on the motifs and architecture

of Mayans

> is common knowledge.

Ah, it comes again... Who shares this knowledge besides yourself?

> The motifs of Lotus and Swastik are found in Mayan civilization

There is a

> picture from the Maya Codex Tro-Cortesianus. It shows a tortoise,

a central

> churning rod and a serpent being used as a rope by figures of dark

and light

> shade While the Greek scholars found it difficult to understand

the

> picture, any one who is conversant with Indian puranas would

immediately

> decpher this as depicting the mythological and cosmologically

significant

> story of Ocean churning by Gods and Demons.
>
> Another example would be the serpent of sunlight and shadow seen

at Chichén

> Itzá. At the time of the equinoxes, as the Sun moves from east to

west, a

> pattern of light and shadow appears on the west balustrade of the

north

> stairway of the Castillo at Chichén Itzá. This display resembles a
> descending snake whose head is the monumental serpent head carved

out of

> stone at the foot of the stairs There are several famous and not

so famous

> temples in India which would play with the sunlight. That sun rays

touch the

> deity's image on a particular day or on a particular time of the

day.

Your "decipherment" is absolutely arbitrary and proves nothing. And,
since we are on a linguistic list, I'm asking you again: please
present some linguistic proof for your theory.

> Ofcourse, most of the Indian scholars discussing the Hindu

influence on

> Mayans do dabble with the idea of connecting this culture with the

Maya of

> Indian mythology, but not on a very serious note.

Glad to hear it.

> It is my hypothesis and endeavour that such connection is avialble.

Then let us have a look at your arguments. Or say explicitly that
there's no detectable links between the Maya languages and Sanskrit
and that your theory is based exclusively on the "decipherment" of
pictures in Mayan codices.