Vedic Americas Vrin Parker The fact that a highly civilized race inhabited America long before the modern civilization of Europe made its appearance there, is quite clear from the striking remains of ancient and his refinement existing in the country. Extensive remains of cities which must have been once in a most flourishing condition, of strong and well-built fortresses, as well as the ruins of very ancient and magnificent buildings, roads, tanks and canals that meet the eye over a very wide area of the southern continent of America, irresistibly force us to the conclusion that the country must have been inhabited at one time by a very highly civilized nation. But whence did this civilization spring? The researches of European antiquarians trace it to India. Mr. Coleman says: Baron Humboldt, the great German traveler and scientist, describes the existence of Hindu remains still found in America. Speaking of the social usages of the inhabitants of Peru, Mr. Pococke says: The Peruvians and their ancestors, the Indians, are in this point of view at once seen to be the same people. The architecture of ancient America resembles the Hindu style of architecture. Mr. Hardy says: The ancient edifices of Chichen in Central America bear a striking resemblance to the tops of India. Mr. Squire also says: The Buddhist temples of Southern India and of the islands of the Indian archipelago, as described to us by the learned members of the Asiatic Society and the numerous writers on the religion and antiquities of the Hindus, correspond with great exactness in all their essential and in many of their minor features with those of Central America. Dr. Zerfii remarks: We find the remarkable temples, fortresses and viaducts, aqueducts of the Aryan group. A still more significant fact proves the Hindu origin of the civilization of ancient America. The mythology of ancient America furnishes sufficient grounds for the inference that it was a child of Hindu mythology. The following facts will elucidate the matter: Americans worshiped Mother Earth as a mythological deity, as the Hindus still do - Dhatri mata and Prithvi mata are well known as familiar phrases in Hindustan. Footprints of heroes and deities on rocks and hills were worshiped by the Americans as devoutly as they are done in India even at the present day. Mexicans are said to have worshiped the footprints of Quetzal Coatl and the Indians worship the footprints of Buddha in Ceylon and of Krishna in Gokula near Mathura. The Solar and Lunar eclipses were looked upon in ancient America in the same light as in modern India. The Hindus beat drums and make noises by beating tin pots and other things. The Americans, too, raise a frightful howl and sound musical instruments. The Carecles (Americans) think that the demon Maleoyo, the hater of light, swallows the moon and sun in the same way as the Hindus think that the demons Rahu and Ketu devour the sun and the moon. The priests were represented in America with serpents round their heads, as Siva, Kali and others are represented by the Hindus.
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