story of india by michael wood-2 (2 posts)

  • Profile picture of gandhiram gandhiram said 6 months ago:

    SONGS FROM PREHISTORY:
    Mantras are the oldest obsession in hindu culture. They are transmited from father to son orally. When we look deep into them they have two component 1) rhythm2)rituals. These two aspects have a meaning only in the later human development. Earliest music and rituals had only psychological connotations and rational explanations to them were added only later. In the form of a system and text these practices can be traced to an archaic religion.
    In Indian state of kerala there still a family of Brahmin priests who claim to be purest among the vedic settlers in india still perform a ritual. The ceremony has mantras which contains often only sounds and there are no words at stretches. Thus the mantras have only elaborate repetition of sounds only. Computerized comparison of these sounds have a similarity only to a form of bird songs. That is these rituals are a continuing heritage that was passed from a time prior to the acquisition of languages by man.
    These early ritual practices had their origins in the early humans who migrated to india from Africa and they were incorporated into the vedic rituals by admixture with the new comers.

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  • Profile picture of r_mutharasan r_mutharasan said 6 months ago:

    These are from Michael Wood’s BBC documentary. I have been searching for
    his descriptions through anthropologists, historians and Vedic
    scholars. They do not concur with Wood’s opinion. Apparently it
    appears to be just Michael Wood’s opinion. I think Wood just spiced up
    his presentation.

    Interestingly the same Y-chromosome haplogroup is shared by both the
    Bhat brahmin community (Mangalore region; >60%) and Adivasis (18%) in
    Madya Pradesh. Similar studies have emerged for communities in other
    states of India. The picture we get is at a molecular level we are a
    blended group, yet exhibit outward differences. The body of information
    regarding Y-chromosome (the project started just five years ago, but an
    earlier study goes back to 1992) is still evolving, and in a few years
    we would have a much richer knowledge of human migration patterns.

    BTW, the so called Y-M9 was found in Theni (west of Madurai) which is
    shared by the Australian aborigines. It was a major discovery when
    announced a few years ago, linking Africa to Australia.

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