Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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importance for the study of early Christianity because it formed the focal
point of the early church's conflict with paganism in Asia as well as in
India. Thus every god was of Royal family. Intrigues of the royal family
feuds formed the background for mythical stories.
Alexander the Great seems to have wished to be a god in his lifetime and
the Hellenistic monarchies followed suit. They received what are called
(isotheoi timai) honors equal to the gods: priests, sacrifices, and worship.
Political tribes were named after them. Ttheir birthday and day of
ascension were celebrated like religious holidays. The kings assumed
titles associated with their godlike actions: ktistes (founder), euergetes
(benefactor), soter (savior). As the Angels and Saints are venerated, local
heroes came to be venerated.
They were real benefactors who helped in material realms They came
to be deified and formed the pantheon of gods.. Iskander was the first
Aryan monarch to be deified.
(Emperor Worship and Roman Religion ITTAI GRADEL, University of
Aarhus, Denmark)
See:http://www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_378/Emperor.Worship.h
tml and http://www.theologywebsite.com/history/rulercult.shtml
In a research study Dr.N. Gopala Pillai establishes that Skanda is simply
the deified Alexander the Great and Skanda Purana is the mythologised
history of his life and conquest.
(http://murugan.org/research/gopalapillai.htm - from the Proceedings of
the All-India Oriental Conference Vol. IX (Trivandrum: Government
Press, 1937), pp. 955-997}
The same argument will hold for Rama, Krishna, Pandavas, Kauravas
and all others.
Further References
http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/Courses/121/oct11john.html
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0103/articles/oakes.html