Book Title: Most Ancient Aryan Society
Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan
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who believe in them are His Chosen People. Material circumstances forced the people to accept this fraud as reality as it helped them to unite, if not in fulness, at least in part; if not for ever, at least for the present. National unity, though artificial and short-lived, was forged. Thus a non-Aryan race exploited an Aryan institution first. Judaism, the first principal world religion, was born in the middle of the second millennium B. C. Judaism was the Religion of Coming Tribalism.
When we enter the period comprised in the present Chapter; we find kind David and King Solomon ruling in Israel Circa 990 B. C. and 960 B. C. respectively. The tale of Judaic social exploits is the tale of murder, blood, wars, slavery, subjugation of women, usurpations, assasinations, fratricidal murders for throne, religious conflict, taxation and exploitation for three centuries. Judaic religion was the newly-discovered aid to the story of jewish violence and expliotation.
Gods and men with the Greeks were humao beings before the Trojan War. After the Trojan War; Gods were celestialised. They were the tribal Chieftains who now showered abundant bounties from heaven on their Greek people. The Greeks believed in Polytheism under the sozerainty of Zews. The Greek religion was the tribal religion of Olympian gods. Orphism was the religion of the original inhabitants of Greece converted to Aryanism who accepted Greek institutions. Pythogoras gave it great impetus. Orphism was spiritual revivalism in Greece as Buddhism was in Bhārata, though the later was not the religion of the Aryan converts but of the pre-Brahmāryan original people of Bhārata. At the end of the period under enquiry; Rome was under the pagan religion of Mithraism influenced by Zoroastrianism of
Religion in Greece and
West Asia
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