Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth

Author(s): Shobhachad Bharilla
Publisher: Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth Prakashan Samiti Byavar

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पंचम अध्याय : २३
9. Pre-Hellenic Ægean Shramanic : The archaeological excavation in Greece, Crete and other Ægean islands have unearthed the Pre-Aryan Minoan culture in the Ægean but the Minoan script has not so far been satisfactorily deciphered and we gather the contents of the pre-Hellenic picture of Greek culture and civilization mainly through the material relics brought to light by the grace of archaeologists. A bronze statue of Reshef' belonging to the 12th century B.C. discovered at Alasia near Enkoni in Cyprus has been discovered. The statue has two significant horns. This Reshef of Western Asia has been identified with Risabha of Bhārata who was the common inherited God of the Pheonicians, Amrorites and the Arameans. He was a deified personage of history belonging to a hoary past beyond any historical date but he was a very popular God in Egypt, Western Asia and the Mediterranean Circa 3000 B.C.39 Reshef or Risabha was the spiritual leader of the pre-Aryan neolithic Cretans. He may safely by identified with the pre-Aryan Bhāratiya Rişabha of the most ancient Hoary past, the founder of the Bhāratiya Shramanic Way. The Greekāryans firmly rooted their final supremacy in Greece and the Ægean Circa 1000 B.C. The spiritual Rişabha traditions still lingered on even after this event. After the establishment of the Greekāryan authority, the synthetic forces acted and reacted upon each other and the foreign Aryan rulers borrowed much from the defeated erstwhile masters of the lands. Thereafter a great Greek, Dionysus, son of Zeus and Persephone, developed a religion which was savage and repulsive in original form. He was the God of primitive tribal Greek agriculturists following the ways of Ganapati Indra in tribal drinking of wine. Dionysus was a great success in Greece; but under the new set of circumstances, that could not continue for long and another great Greek, Orpheus of Crete, influenced by the spiritual way of life gave the Greek religion an ascetic content. Orpheus believed in soul and its transmigration. The Orphics believed that Man is partly of earth and partly of heaven, meaning thereby that Man is the union of Spirit and Matter. They believed that by a pure life, the heavenly part is increased and earthly part decreased. The soul in the next world acheived salvation. The Orphics abstained from animal food. It is certain that Orphic doctrines contain much that seems to have its first source in Egypt and it was cheifly through Crete that Egypt influenced Greece. Orpheus was torn to picence10 for reforms in the Olympian religion. Orphism was the Greek spiritual revivalism as Buddhism was the Bhāratiya spiritual revivalism. The belief of Orphism in Soul, Effortivism, Transmigration and final Attainment are not only peculiarly Egyptian but significantly enough, strikingly similar to the Bhāratiyan beliefs, and also with the Sumerian beliefs. If these beliefs went to Crete via Egypt; they must have gone during the period of old Republic in the beginning of the third millenium B.C. 11. Pre-Aztec American Shramanism : The earliest immigrants, in point of time, to America were the Quatzalcoatl people who reached there Circa 2000 B.C. Quatzalcoatls mean "feathered serpants" or "bird-serpants". They came from the East and departed eastward. Quatzalcoatl was the leader of these first immigrants, the earliest inhabitants of the land. What was the ethnic stock that they belonged to ? Votan was, like Quatzalcoatl, the first historian of his people, and wrote a book on the origin of the race, in which be declares himself
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