Interesting from Wikipedia As per the traditional astronomical back-projection by Vedic system, the event of the war between Rāma and Rāvana is supposed to have happened 880,148 years ago, as of April 09, 2006. Was that in the time of Atlantis? Interesting though...
The Atlantis golden age was around 50,000 BCE (supposedly) but started much earlier 100,000s of years before... Whats really interesting is that the Mahabharata speaks of an intelligent race of monkey-like beings (kimpuruṣas)....in which the dating of 800,000 years ago would make perfect sense (which is around the same time evolution puts an intelligent race of monkey-like beings existing)
Assuming Atlantis actually existed. Depending upon what "intelligent" means in each context of course.
Could be the missing link or an entirely different specis....we all have a tail bone.... I was watching History channel last night about Edgar Cayce who said that Atlantis was a super modern city and got destroyed some 12,000 years ago. And that we will find evidence under the left paw of the Sphinx. Interesting
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It wasn't sarcasm: How did the Mahabharata define intelligence in the race of monkey-like beings and what level of intelligence is ascribed by evolution to those monkeys? Not pseudoscience? And you're bringing Atlantis as a "super modern city" into Eastern philosophy? With Edgar Cayce as supporting evidence?
Same means as the virgin birth, I think.What else could it be when discussing Eastern Philosophy? I guess hints do not work for *certain* people. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
If you do not know the story of Ramayan or anything about the past history of Mahabharat (the extended Indian sub-continent), then it is a good idea to google some more before posting dumb comments. Thank you
just as a point of reference, the kimpurusas are descendants of the daughter of Daksa (one of the many progenitors of living enitites) they are attributed to possessing mystic perfections SB 4.18.20: Others also, the inhabitants of planets known as Kimpuruṣa-loka, made the demon Maya into a calf, and they milked out mystic powers by which one can disappear immediately from another's vision and appear again in a different form. the very word kimpurusa means kim (what?) purusa (human) - in other words "what sort of human is this?". They have a range of appearances mixed with that of humanoids (not just monkeys) In other words kimpurusas are clearly defined as something distinct from the animal species
This is my view as I heard from several gurus in India: The Dasha Avatar describes pretty much the evolution process. 1. Fish 2. Tortoise 3. Boar 4. Man-beast 5. Dwarf 6. Parsurama - a person using stone tools 7. Rama - The king using bows and arrows 8. Sri Krishna - Cows, Agriculture 9. Buddha - Information age 10. Kalki - World Destruction [yet to come] I think the process is non-linear over time with an exponential structure
While Ramayana talks about Monkey people, I do not think they were just large monkeys. Perhaps they were a different human specis like Neanderthals with tails and facial feature somewhat different than humans perhaps a separate but common stock - if that time line is correct.
