Gods, Myths, and the Machinery of Society 1
History of human journey in India
Keeping religion apart, if we want to take a look at the history of civilizations, then there is a lot of information available about the civilizations of Central Asia, whereas most of the history of Indian subcontinent in terms of BC is either un authentic or has been mixed up with religious stories in such a way that it seems less reality and more fiction. No proper history of two and a half thousand years ago can be found here. The Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads, Puranas which have been written in the name of history, seem beyond reality and to be based on imaginations. However, it does not mean that there has been no history or that people just arrived here two and a half to three thousand years ago and get settled. Then at least there should be an effort to find this out. Europe, North Africa, or Asia Minor or Persia have a systematic written history and the citizens also believe it. But when it comes to the Indian there will be only imaginary stories which even most of the citizens find hard to believe.
Why is it so? One of the reasons for this is that in the process of writing history, we have resorted to God, divine powers and miracles so its credibility has become doubtful. And the second biggest reason is the patter of the population.. If you look at the globe you will see that though human civilisation may have started somewhere in Africa but it mainly flourished in the plains between Caspian/Mediterranean and Sindh. They organised themselves here and because of this their history has its remarkable place in human evolution.
On the contrary, humans reached from America to China and the islands of Far East Asia, flourished and continued to develop in small populations, but due to lack of connection with the main population, their history could never become wide spread. Few big civilizations flourished in America at different times and disappeared. In Africa they could not become a big civilization and even today they have not become a part of the mainstream world.
People migrated from the mainland in all directions, in which one group moved towards Asia from the Hindu Kush side, another group went there through India, and one group moved further along the sea shores. In the population that moved towards China, there was less division than India and they got into large societies faster than India, so they also have a sequential written history.
While India was also a forest area like Africa and there were less chances of civilization flourishing like mainland. There was a major issue here that from north to south there were innumerable small populations living along the sea shores and rivers, in forests, on mountains, which took them thousands of years to integrate into large societies, and this development was so slow that there are many loose ends in their history which can only be connected through assumptions.
Nevertheless, whtever was roughly understood says that there ws a totem culture. (A caste that followed a certain symbol.. unlike today's caste system) in which Asura, Yaksha, Gandharva, Rakshasa, Pishach, Reechh, Vanar, Naga, Garuda used to be a Dravidian type identity, whose totems were later established as gods itself. Interestingly this belief was not limited to India only but spread from East Asia to the Mediterranean also and there was no division like nation, state, territory like that of today.
Studying a little history, you will find many similarities between the beliefs and symbols of Egypt, Persia, and India. And they did not even used to keep their identity separate… rather, in the beginning they used to fight among themselves. After winning they used to include women in their society by killing men. Later in the name of increasing productivity, men slavery started in practice.... This slave class was classified as Shudra in India thousands of years later.
Apart from this, when the societies became a little advanced, they started getting along with each other and also started producing offsprings from other groups. Marriage wasnot a common practise and sex was not a taboo. The most important thing was reproduction. This system was called internalization and it led to mixing up beliefs, deities and symbols from one group to the other.
The Aryans were a tribe living near the Caspian Sea. They were fair skinned and horse-riders.
They also spread everywhere. They not only reached around the Mediterranean but also got settled in India via Persia. They made two factions in the form of Aryan and non Anaryans but it got mixed up in such acway that no bloodline could remain pure. More than two factions were formed further in each faction with different as well as similar castes inside them. Although Indra was a position that could be both Aryan and Asura, the people on Indra's side were called Devas, while those behind Manu were called Manavs, who were both Aryans and non-Aryans.
At that time any one who was conquered be it even Aryan was called a slave and later on he became a Shudra. The main identity of Aryan was that they used to worship fire or perform Yagna in which everyone used to take part earlier but later that was restricted for a special group only. The ruling of the parliament that used to be held near the yagna was Brahma, which was further created as a great man in the form of Brahma. All those who used to participate in this yagna now were called Rishis, Purohits. Later they were known as Brahmins...
They later separated some people among themselves who used to play the role of fighters in the battles. They were called Kshatras and further Kshatriyas while the rest of the common people were all Vaishyas, and slaves were equal to animals. At that time the fourth Shudra varna did not come into existence but later the dasas (slaves) were given this identity. At that time varna system was not based on bloodline, due to which many non-Aryans also started Yagna. Brahmas were established which further called as Brahmins.
People had the liberty to change their varna then so nothing was fixed. Now the main point... On the basis of existing evidences (including Hindu scriptures regarding history of other areas) we know that names like Indra, Manu, Ravana, Vishwamitra, etc were actually social positions or one name was being adopted by the next generations because these names are mentioned in different periods. Some characters were made immortal to avoid discrepancy.
All the names you hear were human beings who were recognised as deities later in the name of Pitra Puja or Shakti Puja. This happened all over the world where the king was regarded as a deity or representative of deities who in course of time became a deity himself. There is also a history of few such powerful women who had established themselves as goddesses during their lifetime.
Practices for which Indians often target Europians or Arabs, were also prevalent in the whole world during that period. For example, attacking people, conquering women by killing men, dividing the money/animals/women among themselves, harems, sacrificial rituals of animals and also humans, the goal of life being war, alcohol and sex, meat as the staple food, etc. All this is as much Indian as it is European and Arabic.
Also Brahmins were made of people of every class and slaves were also made of people of every class. Aryans definitely spread all over the world but could not maintain racial purity like Jews and now their mixture will be found all over India but pure Aryans are nowhere left. Hitler also had the same thinking, but it was rather fanatical than reality.
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