astronomy
Swaminathan Madhuresan
smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM
Mon Dec 20 15:16:37 UTC 1999
Mme. Blavatsky is outdated.
--- "Dr. Jai Maharaj" <jai at FLEX.COM> wrote:
> Namaste
>
> "In 1853, the savant known as Erard-Mollien read before
> the Institute of France a paper proving the antiquity of
> the Indian Zodiac, in the signs of which were found the
> root and philosophy of all the most important religious
> festivals of that country; the scholar demonstrated that
> the origin of these religious ceremonies goes back into
> the night of time to at least 3,000 BCE. The Zodiac of
> the Hindus, he demonstrated, was long anterior to the
> Zodiac of the Greeks, and differed from it much in some
> particulars. In it one sees the Dragon on a tree, at the
> foot of which the Virgin, Kanya-Durga, one of the most
> ancient Goddesses, is placed on a Lion dragging after it
> the solar vehicle, the Rath. He said: "'This is the
> reason why this Virgin Durga is not the simple momento of
> an astronomical fact, but verily the most ancient
> divinity of the Indian Olympus. She is evidently the
> same whose return was announced in all the Sibylline
> books -- the source of the inspiration of Virgil -- an
> epoch of universal renovation. . . . And why, since the
> months are still named after this Indian Zodiac, by the
> Sanskrit-speaking people of India, should that people
> have abandoned it to take that of the Greeks? Everything
> proves, on the contrary, that these zodiacal figures were
> transmitted to the Greeks by the Chaldeans who got them
> from the Brahmins of India.'" [3]
>
> - "The Secret Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky. See Recueil
> de l' Acade'mie des Inscriptions, 1853, quoted in Des
> Esprits, Tome iv, page 62. See also: Histoire
> l'Astronomie Anciene by J.B.J. Delambre, 1817 Historical
> View of Hindu Astronomy by John Bentley, 1825.
>
> Jai Maharaj
> jai at mantra.com
> Om Shanti
>
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