sealchan
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HUMMM! Switch around a letter A and you have Brahma.
Abraham is called Father of all.
Brahma is called progenitor of all humans.
“According to several scholars, the Hebrew words "Ab" means " father" and "Ram" means "High". Again "Ab" means "father" and "Bara" means "Creator" and "Am" means "people". Thus Abraham means "like Brahma, the creator of the people" or father of a religious dynasty.” Yahoo's Aabaco Small Business: Websites, Ecommerce, Email & Local Listings
“Consider the word Bharata. This word is formed from the Sanskrit root ‘Bhara’, which under the sway of the rule of vowelization, may assume the form ‘Ibhar’, ‘Iber’, ‘Ibhray’, ‘Ibhri’, ‘Ibri’, ‘Ibrini’ etc. Words which all have been equated with the term Hebrew.”
What was Abraham's sister/wife called? Sarai/Sarah
What was Brahma's sister/wife called? Sarai/Saraswati
Abraham told Pharaoh and the King of Gerer that Sarai was his sister.
The bible also states that Ishmael, son of his wife Hagar, and his descendants lived in India. "...Ishmael breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kin... They dwelt from Havilah (India), by Shur, which is close to Egypt, all the way to Asshur." (Genesis 25:17-18.)
"It is the opinion of Kalisch, however, that Havilah "in both instances designates the same country, extending at least from the Persian to the Arabian Gulf, and on account of its vast extent easily divided into two distinct parts." This opinion may be well vindicated." Havilah Definition and Meaning - Bible Dictionary
Look at a map - this includes India.
The names of his sons, Isaac and Ishmael are derive from Sanskrit: (Hebrew) Ishaak = (Sanskrit) Ishakhu = "Friend of Shiva." (Hebrew) Ishmael = (Sanskrit) Ish-Mahal = "Great Shiva."
"Megasthenes, who was sent to India by Seleucus Nicator, about three hundred years before Christ says that the Jews 'were an Indian tribe or sect called Kalani...'" (Anacalypsis, by Godfrey Higgins, Vol. I; p. 400.)
"The tribe of Ioud or the Brahmin Abraham, left the Maturea of the kingdom of Oude in India and, settling in Goshen, or the house of the Sun or Heliopolis in Egypt, gave it the name of the place which they had left in India, Maturea." (Anacalypsis; Vol. I, p. 405.)
"...These Jews are derived from the Indian philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calani." Josephus (37 - 100 A.D.), (Book I:22.)
The Bible tells us he and family went from Ur to Egypt before being called. All goods and people from India went through Ur.
Very interesting, YES?
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Yes!
I've been studying Genesis closely and have seen several story elements in it that relate to other stories from other cultures. In particular I see a lot of Jacob's story as having similarities with the Mahabharata especially around the Game of Dice story.
I've also seen how Egyptian mythology plays into the stories in early Genesis and of course the Sumerian/Bablylonian flood myth. Also the Odyssey. It seems that there was a great wealth of spiritual epic stories and any culture with access to it could craft its own people's spiritual epic from the bones of others.
Great stuff!