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BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN<br />
“And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth<br />
divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and<br />
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah; and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah; and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;<br />
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. And their dwelling was<br />
from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. These are the sons of<br />
Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. These are the<br />
families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations<br />
divided in the earth after the flood.” (Gen 10:25-32)<br />
Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab and their Dravidian families were the first to settle in the Indus<br />
Valley which became the center of the early civilization after the flood. They covered all the areas<br />
from the Northern Iran and Afghanistan. These were the children of Eber through his eldest son<br />
Joktan.<br />
“Historically, the word Hindu was also derived from the Aryan description for the Indian<br />
culture just as the Hindu-Kush Mountain is the Aryan description of the meeting point between the<br />
Hindu and the Kushan tribes of Afghanistan. In the earliest times, the Hindu-Kush Mountain was<br />
known as mount Sephar, which is the Himalayan mountain range that covers part of Afghanistan<br />
and India. The scripture below reveals how the dwelling of the Dravidians and East Asian families<br />
began from the ancient regions of Meshed in the northeastern boundaries of Iran that links<br />
Afghanistan into East Asian Himalayan mountain range that was called mount Sephar in ancient<br />
times.<br />
‘And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goes unto Sephar, a mount of the east.’ (Genesis<br />
10:30)<br />
With reference to above scriptural context, the territory called Mesha is still known today as Meshed<br />
(Masshad) in the region of northeastern Iran that is around Afghanistan. Besides, great Mountains<br />
separate the region of northern India that began from this region from the rest of Asia and the<br />
southern half of India is a triangular peninsula that extends into the Indian Ocean. Although Ophir<br />
the eleventh son of Joktan was the ancient name of India and the most prominent Dravidian<br />
families known to the ancient the world but Havilah his immediate younger brother also had a name<br />
in the Indus valley where the Indian civilization originally began....”<br />
......the land of Ophir and Havilah where there is gold was the valley of the ancient River Pison (now<br />
River Indus). In ancient times, India was commonly referred to, as the land of Ophir but the modern<br />
name India was later derived from this Indus River, which supported the cradle of the earliest<br />
civilization in East Asia that began in regions now known as Pakistan and northern India”<br />
(Nations of the World -.How They Evolved, Part 2, Nations That Evolved From the Five Sons of<br />
Shem by Olufolahan Akintola)<br />
Dravidians of IVC were Hebrews as they were descendants of Eber. To this was added the<br />
children of Abraham who were descendants of the covenant with the God of Abraham. We cannot<br />
call them Israel as Israels were descendants of Jacob and we cannot call them Jews because Jews<br />
are descendants of Judah. They were all inter-related and were all Hebrews.<br />
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