Hindu-Mexican Trinity

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Hindu-Mexican Trinity:

 

Scholars were also greatly impressed by the similarity between the

Hindu Trinity - Brahma-Visnu-Shiva and the Mexican Trinity - Ho-

Huizilopochtli-Tlaloc-as well as the likeness between Indian temples

and American pyramids. The parallels between the Hindu Brahma-Vishnu-

Shiva Trinity and the Mexican Ho-Huitzilopochtli-Tlaloc Trinity, and

the resemblances between the attributes of certain Hindu deities and

those of the Mayan pantheon are impressive. Discussing the diffusion

of Indian religions to Mexico, a recent scholar, Paul Kirchhoff, has

even suggested that it is not simply a question of miscellaneous

influences wandering from one country to the other, but that China,

India, Java, and Mexico actually share a common system."

 

Kirchhoff has sought "to demonstrate that a calendaric classification

of 28 Hindu gods and their animals into twelve groups, subdivided

into four blocks, within each of which we find a sequence of gods and

animals representing Creation, Destruction and Renovation, and which

can be shown to have existed both in India and Java, must have been

carried from the Old World to the New, since in Mexico we find

calendaric lists of gods and animals that follow each other without

interruption in the same order and with attributes and functions or

meanings strikingly similar to those of the 12 Indian and Javanese

groups of gods, showing the same four subdivisions."

 

E.B.Taylor also found the counterparts of the tortoise myth of India

in ancient America.

Donald A. Mackenzie and other scholars, however, are of definite

opinion that the ancient Mexicans and Peruvians were familiar with

Indian mythology and cite in support close parallels in details. For

instance, the history of the Mayan elephant symbol cannot be traced

in the local tradition, whereas it was a prominent religious symbol

in India. The African elephant has larger ears. It is the profile of

the Indian elephant, its tusk and lower lip, the form of its ear, as

well as its turbaned rider with his ankus, which is found in Meso-

American models. Whilst the African elephant was of little religious

significance, it had been tamed in India and associated with

religious practices since the early days.

 

The Mexican doctrine of the World's Ages - the universe was destroyed

four consecutive times - is reminiscent of the Indian Yugas. Even the

reputed colors of these mythical four ages, white, yellow, red and

black are identical with and in the same order as one of the two

versions of the Indian Yugas. In both myths the duration of the First

Age is exactly the same, 4,800 divine years. The Mexican Trinity is

associated with this doctrine as in the Hindu Trinity with the Yugas

in India.

 

Later, two English scholars Channing Arnold and Fredrick J.Tabor

Frost, in their The American Egypt, made a detailed examination of

the transpacific contacts, reinforcing the view of Buddhist

influences on Central America. The most recent and by far the most

systematic well-reasoned, and effective case has been advanced by the

eminent archaeologist, R.Heine-Geldern and Gordon Ekholm, who favor

Indian and Southeast Asian cultural influences on ancient America

through migration across the Pacific.

 

According to the Mayan calendar, which is extant, the time record of

the mayas began on 6 August 613 B.C. It is an exact date based upon

intricated astronomical calculations, and prolonged observations. To

work out this kind of elaborate calendar must have taken well over

two thousand years of studying stars, and the Asiomericans must have

been remarkably shrewd observers.