shailendra
May 10th, 2006, 10:28 PM
Ok, seems like we could do with a shot in the arm of some intriguing, mysterious and thought provoking threads!!!
...and I had posted this thread quite a while ago, and would like to reliven it again (with some additional notes)...This is a question that most of us have come across sometime or the other and have probably did our own read up on it, possibly forming our own opinions about it too! So let's hear them people!!!....
Were the ancient humans (forefathers) more advanced than even the present modern race???...I too have always wondered about this question ever since I was a kid reading on those books about the ancient mysteries of the world, and now I would like to pose this question to you all with a hope of a very invigorating discussion and your frank viewpoints! So ok, consider this:
We all must have, one time or the other, read those stories not only in Hindu mythology but even from western legends about the presence and existence of far more sophisticated societies that could do more advanced stuff than we are able to even now achieve in these modern times…
If one looks at western legends; like the lost (and advanced) city of Atlantis, the statues found in the mysterious (still un-explained) area of the Bermuda triangle that date from ancient times and depict forms that look like they are wearing space suits and of people from outer space!
The construction technique of those huge legendary Pyramids in Egypt is still unexplained. No one knows how ancient slaves were able to carry those stones to the top like that. With such precise symmetry (angle, orientation to the sky and Earth) to these lanmarks that defy all logic.The Stonehenge in Britain. Giant carving (miles long) found on the mountains of Peru that have strange figures and signature etchings that can only be viewed as whole when seen from a plane or a helicopter (on the ground they are undetectable!)!!!
…and I can go on about the unexplained mysteries that are still around mostly poking a taunting finger at the modern world!
And of course, going back to Hindu mythology itself; Ravana having a ‘Pushpak Viman’ (or a flying Chariot- more like a modern day small plane) and Arjuna and the other mythological heroes fighting with such advanced weapons that remind one of a modern day deadly missiles. The blind Dhrithrashtra was apparently given minute-by-minute updates (thru his minister, of course) of the whole Mahabharata in the safety of his palace, not very different from the easiness of watching a televised Gulf or the Iraq war from our living rooms.
And NOW… suddenly and mysteriously these powers or powerful societies are gone! Vanished in the mists of time…these things mentioned thru legends which talk about such advanced techniques that mankind is still in the process of discovering!
What are the beliefs, thoughts that the members have about this?
Do you really believe that the world had to their disposal enormous powers and techniques that were somehow lost with time or for whatever reasons? Or are we just simply romanticizing too much about our ancient forefathers and what they were able to accomplish in that era long gone? Is there a more simplified explaination to all this???
...and I had posted this thread quite a while ago, and would like to reliven it again (with some additional notes)...This is a question that most of us have come across sometime or the other and have probably did our own read up on it, possibly forming our own opinions about it too! So let's hear them people!!!....
Were the ancient humans (forefathers) more advanced than even the present modern race???...I too have always wondered about this question ever since I was a kid reading on those books about the ancient mysteries of the world, and now I would like to pose this question to you all with a hope of a very invigorating discussion and your frank viewpoints! So ok, consider this:
We all must have, one time or the other, read those stories not only in Hindu mythology but even from western legends about the presence and existence of far more sophisticated societies that could do more advanced stuff than we are able to even now achieve in these modern times…
If one looks at western legends; like the lost (and advanced) city of Atlantis, the statues found in the mysterious (still un-explained) area of the Bermuda triangle that date from ancient times and depict forms that look like they are wearing space suits and of people from outer space!
The construction technique of those huge legendary Pyramids in Egypt is still unexplained. No one knows how ancient slaves were able to carry those stones to the top like that. With such precise symmetry (angle, orientation to the sky and Earth) to these lanmarks that defy all logic.The Stonehenge in Britain. Giant carving (miles long) found on the mountains of Peru that have strange figures and signature etchings that can only be viewed as whole when seen from a plane or a helicopter (on the ground they are undetectable!)!!!
…and I can go on about the unexplained mysteries that are still around mostly poking a taunting finger at the modern world!
And of course, going back to Hindu mythology itself; Ravana having a ‘Pushpak Viman’ (or a flying Chariot- more like a modern day small plane) and Arjuna and the other mythological heroes fighting with such advanced weapons that remind one of a modern day deadly missiles. The blind Dhrithrashtra was apparently given minute-by-minute updates (thru his minister, of course) of the whole Mahabharata in the safety of his palace, not very different from the easiness of watching a televised Gulf or the Iraq war from our living rooms.
And NOW… suddenly and mysteriously these powers or powerful societies are gone! Vanished in the mists of time…these things mentioned thru legends which talk about such advanced techniques that mankind is still in the process of discovering!
What are the beliefs, thoughts that the members have about this?
Do you really believe that the world had to their disposal enormous powers and techniques that were somehow lost with time or for whatever reasons? Or are we just simply romanticizing too much about our ancient forefathers and what they were able to accomplish in that era long gone? Is there a more simplified explaination to all this???