Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration
Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration
Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />
1) Jewish and Christian translations of the Bible from the second to fifth century<br />
A.D. render Capthor as Cappadocia, a prov<strong>in</strong>ce with<strong>in</strong> the Hittite empire;<br />
2) <strong>in</strong> 711 B.C. Sargon II used the name Hittites to <strong>in</strong>dicate the <strong>in</strong>habitants of the<br />
Philist<strong>in</strong>e city of Ashdod;<br />
3) just like the Philist<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> Canaan, the Hittites <strong>in</strong> Anatolia had a monopoly on<br />
iron, which was carefully protected;<br />
4) the Hittites called their k<strong>in</strong>gs 'judges' ('tarawanas'), as did the Philist<strong>in</strong>es and<br />
the tribes of Israel;<br />
5) the Philist<strong>in</strong>e pr<strong>in</strong>cipal god Dagon is also a god of the Hittites: 'Dagan-zipas',<br />
and their second god Baal-Zebub is paralleled <strong>in</strong> the Hittite god 'Zababa' of<br />
'Ziparwa';<br />
6) the types of pottery we call Philist<strong>in</strong>e are found everywhere along the<br />
eastern coast of the Mediterranean, and thus can hardly be used as evidence<br />
( M. Riemschneider, Die Herkunft der Philister, Acta Antiqua IV, 1956, p. 17-29.)<br />
http://www.anistor.co.hol.gr/english/enback/m023.htm<br />
S<strong>in</strong>ger sums up the current state of research :<br />
"Clear evidence for the orig<strong>in</strong>s of the Sea Peoples is still miss<strong>in</strong>g (survey of<br />
views <strong>in</strong> S<strong>in</strong>ger 1988). Disregard<strong>in</strong>g some farfetched theories, the admissible<br />
views may be roughly classified accord<strong>in</strong>g to three ma<strong>in</strong> geographical zones.<br />
(a) The N Balkans, particularly Illyria on the Adriatic coast; the "Illyrian theory"<br />
is related with the identification of the Philist<strong>in</strong>es (*Palaisti may be the orig<strong>in</strong>al<br />
form of the name) with the Pelasgoi (sometimes spelled Pelastoi) of the classical<br />
sources, a pre-Hellenic people who <strong>in</strong>habited the Balkans and the Aegean<br />
regions (Lochner-Hόttenbach 1960).<br />
(b) The W Aegean region, i.e., Greece, the Aegean islands, and Crete; this<br />
theory relies on archaeological (ma<strong>in</strong>ly ceramic)comparisons and on the biblical<br />
tradition, which br<strong>in</strong>gs the Philist<strong>in</strong>es from the island of Caphtor, i.e., Crete.<br />
(c) The E Aegean, i.e., Anatolia and the offshore islands.<br />
32