RE: Brahma and Abraham
September 18, 2020 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2020 at 1:43 pm by GrandizerII.)
The Jehovah/Brahma remark was meant to be a sidenote. Main point doesn't change. The stories appear to be too dissinilar, the characters appear to be too dissimilar, in accordance with the primary sources that it would require grasping at straws to link them together in a causal sense.
You can easily convince me that Noah's story is paralleled in accounts prior, that Noah himself has parallels in the main characters of those respective prior accounts, because just looking at the accounts side to side makes it clear. Of course it would be another thing to convince me that Noah was influenced by Manu specifically rather than by some of the other prior figures, but that's another story
The OP is another story. We fail to see a strong case in the OP in the case of Abraham and Sarah and Brahma and Sarasvati. The misses are too many. The hits are forced.
You can easily convince me that Noah's story is paralleled in accounts prior, that Noah himself has parallels in the main characters of those respective prior accounts, because just looking at the accounts side to side makes it clear. Of course it would be another thing to convince me that Noah was influenced by Manu specifically rather than by some of the other prior figures, but that's another story
The OP is another story. We fail to see a strong case in the OP in the case of Abraham and Sarah and Brahma and Sarasvati. The misses are too many. The hits are forced.
