(October 13, 2014 at 12:37 pm)genkaus Wrote:(October 13, 2014 at 9:38 am)Riketto Wrote: May i see your evidence that the temples in Varanasi are not older than 4000 years ago?
Sure.
The earliest known archaeological evidence suggests that settlement around Varanasi in the Ganga valley (the seat of Vedic religion and philosophy) began in the 11th or 12th century BC.
Recent excavations at Aktha and Ramnagar, two sites very near to Varanasi, show them to be from 1800 BC, suggesting Varanasi started to be inhabited by that time too.
If the temples were older, then we'd have definite archeological evidence dating Varanasi to before these dates. But since these are the dates we have, it indicates the temples are not older.
Now, let's see some evidence for your 7000 year claim.
Oh, man, you are more naive than i thought.
Years ago when i had a chat with my older brother (a tourist guide and expert in history) back in Italy about the origin of our city (Bologna) i was asking him how old Bologna was knowing already that was older than Rome.
He said to me......don't you know that well before this city exist there was the Villanova civilization and finding of that civilization have been found in many places even under the local market few streets from here.
Well well very interesting i said but more interesting is the fact that well before this civilization there were other civilization dating back even in prehistoric times ( 43,000 to 45,000 years ago).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Italy
Now genakus why don't you go to Varanasi and start digging under those temples to find out how many civilization existed before the one existing.
Forget for a moment what the expert who study the present civilization say and try to found out what is behind these present civilization.
You may be very surprised in finding out prehistoric civilization.
Coming back to whether Shiva and yoga date back 7000 years or not here there are one more evidence that convince me that it is the case.
The mantras or sound that goes along with the breath are coming from the sanskrit which is more that 7000 years old as well as the svastica which is the yoga symbol.
What more evidence i need?
http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com.au/...ttery.html
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienci...ndia_c.htm