RE: Brahma and Abraham
September 15, 2020 at 10:34 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2020 at 10:36 am by GrandizerII.)
(September 15, 2020 at 10:10 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It will, though, Grand, because that's all that comparative myth is saying when it makes that claim. It's saying that we can see the relationships between human cultures and their development. That they are clearly represented in our literary traditions and in our beliefs about the world around us. That we've been collaborating.
It's not saying, for example, that some ancient hebrew sat down with a copy of somebody else's myths and scribbled out some names and authors, replaced it with their own, and called it a day.
It (the OP) is about a specific comparison that came into existence because some specific modern people with specific keen interests in mind figured that the names "Abraham" and "Brahma" sound so similar as to not be a coincidence, and therefore they concluded Abraham must be based on Brahma.
The general point you're making may be true or not, but it being true does not therefore mean the specific claim being made in the OP is true. It's not saying the nebulous construct "Adam/Noah/Abraham/Isaac/Jacob/Joseph/whatever" are based on "Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva/whatever". It's making a very specific comparison, and whether the authors of Genesis copied down accounts from prior myths or not, evidence for that specific claim is lacking, and the comparison is desperate and unwarranted.
