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Post No.7774

Date uploaded in London – 2 April 2020   

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All of us go to temples and pray for one million things. Hindus pray for Moksha which is absent in Semitic prayers. Only people belonging to oriental religions pray to get out of B irth and Death Cycle. Since three   speakers are in museums theory they don’t bother about  Mukti or Moksha.

Hindus’ oldest prayers are in the Rig Veda. Probably those are the oldest prayers in the world. Greeks started writing (literature) only from 800 BCE. Hebrews and Chinese come closer to Hindus. Tamils started writing books from first century BCE. Just after the Latin speakers. Other ancient languages and their works are in museums now.

Greek god ZEUS is like the Indra of Rig Veda. Some people would compare him with Vedic Dyaus, Prajapathi, Jupiter etc.

Let my Father Die, Please!

Here is a bit of information from the book Eureka by Peter Jones:-

Greeks were well aware of the paradoxes inherent in Homer’s view of the gods . The brilliant satirist Lucian, writing in the second century CE, described how Zeus sat up in heaven in front of a collection  of what looked like wells , each with a cover. He lifted the lid off each well to hear what prayers , covenants, oaths, omens and sacrifices in his name were coming through to him.

One man asked to become king, another that his onions and garlic should grow, another that his father should soon die. Some sailors prayed that the north wind should blow, others the south; farmers prayed for rain, people doing the washing for sun.

When ZEUS had listened to them all (groaning, as he did so, at the impossibility of keeping everyone happy), he left his orders, sounding rather like a TV weatherman: “Rain today in Scythia, lightning in Libya, snow in Greece; north wind in Lydia, south wind, take a rest, west wind, raise a storm over the Adriatic Sea; and a few large baskets of hailstones, fall on Cappadocia.”