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Aryans In India are the survivors of Trojan War
Its interesting to note that both the Indian Hindu mythology and the Greek Mythology share a lot of things in common. Previously when researchers started comparing these two they only looked for similar names. For example Uranus (mythology) of the Greek Mythology and Varuna of the Hindu Mythology. The fact is only their name is the same. A Hindu believer knows how much Varuna is different from Uranus of the Greek Mythology. When comparison or research regarding links to Hindu Mythology and Greek Mythology is done first thing to be noted is the time difference between the two and the distance between the two nations. For a person to start from the Mediterannean region where the Greek Mythology was born to reach India it cannot be done in 24 hours like its possible today. Care should also be taken as to the mode in which the stories or the facts or data is stored. Since GutenBurg had not made the printing press near 3000 BC it is safe to assume that all historical data is shared and stored just by word of mouth. A travellers tale, a campfire story or just a calm night with the grandfather.

In the words of Robert Jordan the author of The Wheel of Time fantasy series, As time passes on a story becomes a legend, a legend becomes a myth and then the Myth is forgotten too ; and that is jsut what happened here. The surviving Greeks from Troy travelled all the way to India and settled here later calling themselves as Aryans. But their Myths did not get forgotten. The Myths gave them the gods that Hinduism believe in right now.

This can be easily understood from various similarities that occurs in both the Hindu Mythology and the Trojan War when supposedly both should have happened thousands of miles from each other.

Lets start with the main character and the cause of the Trojan War, Paris. Paris in the Trojan War became Sri Krishna of the Hindu Mythology.

Everything about the both can be compared and seen to be similar: Paris was a womanizer. So was Sri Krishna. He was loved by women.

Paris was not brought up with his real parents in his childhood. He lived as a shepherd. So did Sri Krishna live away from his real parents and live a shepherd life.

Paris had an elder brother who was very strong and looked after him, Hector. SriKrishna had Balarama as his brother. Balarama is strong and courageous and is a constant protection for SriKrishna.

Paris whisked Helen of Sparta and brought her to the Island country. Srikrishna and Rukmini fell in love iwth each other and came back to Dwaraka, the island country.

Just the main characters have so much in common. Then there is also Achilles.

Achilles was the 8th son of his mother,Thetisand it is said she killed all the other sons trying to make them immortal by dipping them into the River. There is an exact reference to the same from Hindu Mythology in the name of Bhishma or Devavritha. Bhishma is the youngest son of his mother Ganga in Hinduism, a goddess. She kills all his brother by throwing them into the river so as to lift a curse. But Bhishma is saved when his father stops Ganga from doing it. And like the mother of Achilles Ganga left her husband and went away.

Now look at the Mount Olympus. This is where the king of gods and the other gods are supposed to residing. Similary the abode of gods and Heaven is the place in mountains in Hindu Mythology. Its none other than the snow capped Himalayas just like the Mount Olympus. Snow, ever present in both.

The main villains of the Greek Mythology are the Titans who come from down under. In the hindu Mythology there are the dark Asuras who come from down under. They are none other than the dark Dravidians of South India who were the earliest inhabitants of India.

But the story of SriKrishna and Bhishma is different in many other aspects too from Achilles and Paris.But ofcourse when generations upon generations of authors and historians take thier own artistic licence and change facts here and there it becomes what we see right now.Then come many other nuiances. It is to be noted that various things in both the mythologies are comparable, though some do not make any sense. For example in the Hindu Mythology SriKrishna is vulnerable only at his heel and cannot be killed with arrow or sword or nay other part of the body. In the Trojan war its Achilles who has the same vulnerable point. And as in the Hindu Mythology where SriKrishna is killed by an arrow to his heel Achilles is killed by an arrow to his heel. This is where the time duration for the story to travel from Greece to India, or the time taken by the Trojan War survivors to reach the fertile lands of India, and mode of sharing the story comes to play. As a grandfather tells his grandchildren he will glorify his hero more and more and as the generation passes, the hero becomes a legend and later legend becomes God.Its natural and its predictable. Moreover when the survivors of Troy tell the story of the war they will surely glorify their hero, Paris. The name and the story changed as centuries were shed away and later on Hindu Mythology and the various gods in it were born.

It is to be noted here that the actual survivors of the Trojan War did not reach India. If they did the real story would have reached India hopefully. Instead It was the descendants of the survivors that reached india. That too scores of generations later only.

The survivors of the Trojan war from Troy made the centuries long journey from Mediterannean and later reach India with the tales or legends of their gods. The highly intelligent scholars and Sages of ancient india after the Aryans did research in almost every filed and excelled in every field. But it was impossible for them to impart their knowledge to teh common man who was ignorent of everything but the next monsoon. That is when these gods and their stories were used to give the common man the philosophical and theological knowledge. Hindu religion has more science and sense than any other religion because of this reason too. If we try to ignore the blinding superstitions Hinduism is just a scientific way of living.