RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 17, 2023 at 11:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2023 at 11:38 pm by GrandizerII.)
(July 17, 2023 at 10:18 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote:(July 17, 2023 at 9:59 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Really, prey tell how you come to believe some ancient text could actually refer to oxygen and hydrogen?
For whatever reason, oxygen and hydrogen seem to be the accepted translations of pranavayu and udanavayu
I'm not the one claiming they were talking about oxygen and hydrogen; the translations are ripped directly from the website.
Any time I look this up, every source seems to agree that one can confidently surmise that - in the greater context of the Agastya Samhita - it definitely seems they were describing oxygen and hydrogen
They knew pranavayu to be a life-giving gas and udanavayu to be a floating gas
Were they oxygen and hydrogen in the modern sense, with atomic numbers included? No. I guess in some sense they weren't referring to oxygen and hydrogen. Instead, we could say they were referring to a vital life-giving gas that we breathe in as well as a floating gas that can be used in balloons
You might want to check the findings noted in this link:
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/did-a...ge-history
According to his findings, it appears as if this passage you quoted doesn't appear in any of the ancient Sanskrit texts, or rather it's not even a translation of anything written in those texts. Rather, some charlatan in the early 1900s provided a wacko interpretation (not translation, mind you) of some ancient poem, which then got confused by later dolts to be a part of the ancient texts and misrendered accordingly ...
