Tag: Yaksha

  • Hindus Yaksha City Yaxchilan In Mexico Mayans and Tamils

    The Americas were the Patalas  as described by Hinduism in the Puranas.

    Yakshas are described as a Superior Benevolent beings and Kubera, God of Wealth, is their Chief.

    The Rishis of India, Narada included were connected to the Mayans.

    Yachilan Lintel.Image.jpg
    Yaxichilan Litel.Yaksha of Hinduism?

    There are two architects in Hindu Puranas.

    Mayasura was an ancient King of India and he was the architect of the Patala Loka.

    The Mayans have a close relationship with this legend.

    Mayans were great Astronomers and were the Hindus.

    I shall be posting on the Astronomy connection between Mayas and the Hindus.

    Yaksha Sclupture India.Image.jpg
    Yaksha Sculpture Saranath,India

    And the The Nagas were also connected to the Mayans.

    To the topic on hand ,

    Yaxchilan pronounced: [ʝaʃtʃiˈlan] is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Late Classic Period Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta, with Piedras Negras as its major rival.(wiki)

    ‘Epigraphers think that the ancient name for the city was probably the same as that of its’ realm, Pa’ Chan, meaning “Cleft (or broken) Sky“.
    The lintels of Yaxchilan Temples are decorated with carvings that can be connected to carvings ofYakshas in India.
    In Sanskrit PaShan (पाषण) also means stone and this could be distorted as Pa’Chan.
    In Ancient India, Yakshas(यक्ष) are a class of benevolent spirits or super-natural guards who are the custodians of treasures that are hidden in the earth and in the roots of trees…

     

    Maya, who built mystical and phenomenal structures for Yakshas and Asuras (demons) was also a Yaksha and we can related him as origin of Mayan civilization, that thrived in mexico and south america.

    Sila (शिला) means stone or stone-sculpture or stone plate in sanskrit.
    Yaksha-Sila (यक्षशिला) are the Yaksha’s stone-lintels in Mexico and thus the name Yaxchilan (distorted version of Yaksha-Sila).
    Yakshas are mentioned in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions.

    There is definitely an important connection between the old Vedic people and Maya-ancestors. The Mayas are actually referred to in The Mahabharata, one of the main Hindu scriptures, as a tribe having left the Indian subcontinent. There are sources who have revealed those people to be the same as the Nagas, one of the oldest Indian tribes recorded. Those Nagas seem to have been a people, later called Danavas, with a capital Nagapur. They are referred to in another main Hindu-scripture, the Ramayana, as belonging to a Naga-Maya tribe, who is said to have transmitted their culture towards Babylonia, Egypt and Greece.” 

    Naga is the Sanskrit word for serpent or snake. The feathered serpent represents the Mayan God Kukulcan or Quetzacoatl, a Christ/Krishna-like figure. In those days the ancient serpent  religion referred to the Serpents of Wisdom. Mercury or Hermes (Narada – see further in text) – his symbol is the caduceus : two serpents entwined around a staff.

    The Tamil Connection.
    “The four principal groups in ancient India were the Asuras (Assyrians or Indus Valley people), Panis (Phoenicians), Yakhus or Yakshas (subjects of Kubera, god of gold and treasure a.k.a. Nagas) and Mayas. We know them today as the Dravidians (Tamils, Malayalam, etc.)

    The non Indus Valley people in ancient days were exceedingly superstitious and fearful of the Mayans. The latter were excellent international shippers and traders, builders and astronomers. Their superstitious enemies thought their accomplishments had to be magic and beyond human ability. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. Later, they went to the Americas, having been taken there by Kubera and his Yakshas.” [12] ‘Ceylon’ in those ancient times was more than likely the now sunken land to the south of India and connected geographically to the Ceylon of today, Sri Lanka. This is the ancient Tamil country of which today’s Tamil Nadu in India is but a small remnant..

    This is a major key to the understanding of their ancient Sri Lankan origins which, with southern Tamil India, extended much further south, now since sunk hundreds of thousands of years ago.When speaking of their origins, the Mayans (like the Hopis) had several names for their land: Shilanka(Xilanca) – an ancient name of Ceylon (Zeilan-Ka) Shikalanka (Xicalanca) – Ceylon. In Tamil, Shikalam.A Mayan culture hero was Ishbalanka (Xbalanca) meaning in Tamil, “Shiva of Lanka” who was supposed to have made the footprint on top of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka; modernly, in line with the prevailing Buddhist culture, it is known as (Gautama) ‘Buddha’s footprint.’Palenque, the ancient capital of Guatamala, Palenke (Palenque) derives from the Tamil Pal-Lanka, meaning “Protectorate of Lanka.” Guatemala (the main habitat of the Mayans) may derive from Gautemala, meaning “A Subsidiary Land of Gautama Buddha.”

    References and Citation.

    Una Vision del Mundo, Prof. G. Zapata Alonzo, Merida, Mexico, 1994, p.71.

    “Ophiucus : Astronomy , Astrology & the “Thirteenth Constellation” in Soul Cycles of the Seven Rays, Phillip Lindsay.
    Will the Maya Prophecy Really Happen? Gene D. Matlock.

    The Mayans

  • Lemuria Home Of Tamils In Ramayana ,Mahabharata

    I will be posting a couple of blogs on the Lost Continent of Lemuria, the Home of the Tamils.

    Proof is available  Texts, History Archaeology and Photos.

    Lemuria, Home of The Tamils.
    Lemuria, Home of The Tamils.

    Ancient Tamil Literature dating back to 5000 years speak of the Home of the Tamils Lemuria , ‘குமரிக்கண்டம்  .

    Please refer  ‘History of The Tamils’ By Srinivasa Iyengar, available in Google Books.

    Internal evidence may be found there .

    There are references to Tamil Kingdoms  in The Ramayana, Mahabharata.

    In Ramayana.

    There is also a thought that the Yaksha Kingdom is Ancient Tamil Nadu, containing the present South Indian States,Kerala, Karnataka,Andhra and Kerala.

    “The probable location of these southern Yakshas is the eastern Kerala or the western Tamilnadu, where lies the southern parts of the Western Ghats (Malaya Mountains). The mountain peaks in these regions are very high, close to 2.5 KM in height, the highest in India after Himalayan peaks, with temperature dropping to zero degrees like in Himalayas as well as in the central mountains (Trikuta) of Lanka. Assuming that the Yakshas and Rakshasas always seek such a climate (high mountains, cold climate) which is found in all these places (the Western Ghats, the Himalayas, the Trikuta mountains of Srilanka), we can safely assume that this (the southern parts of the Western Ghats) was indeed the location of the territory of Ravana’s step brother Kubera. Besides this, the description of flora and fauna, of Kuvera’s territories contains mention of coconut trees and Panasa trees, which are found abundant in Kerala, but not found in a mountainous Kailasa in the northern Himalayas.”

    These southern Yaksha territories seems to have existed from Kanyakumari to Palani, probably also extending along the mountainous Kerala-Tamilnadu boarder to Kerala-Karnataka boarder reaching as north as Mangalapuram, where Yaksha-Gaana is attested as popular dance form. They might have had their sea-port in Kanyakumari allowing them to control Indian Ocean from there, launching their ships and navy.

    In The Mahabharata.

    Mahabharata mentions the Chera King ‘Perunchotru Udhiyan Neduncheralaathan’ during the Epic Mahabharata war fought between the Pandavas and Kauravas.

    He is reported to have fed both the Armies.

    Hence his name’Perunchotru Udhiyan, meaning ‘who has fed many a stomachs’

    He is reported to have performed the ‘Tharpana. for all those killed in the Mahabharata War in Chera Kingdom,the present Kerala.

    There are references to the Tusks’ and pearls from Tamil Nadu in the Vedas.

    These references may be found in Srinivasa Iyengar’s Book

    It is evident that the Tamils were a highly developed Society during the Vedic period.

    (The book  ‘Hindu Manners,Customs and ceremonies  by Abbe A.J.Dubois, in the Epilogue mentions that even as the Hindu Culture is very ancient, there is equally ancient Culture.

    That made me read the reference Books on Tamil History)

    Arjuna is also reported to have married a Pandya Princess from Madurai(probably the Madurai further down South (Then Madurai) which sunk with Lemuria.

    Viswamitra had banished his  sons to Dravida and they mingled with he Tamils,evolved the Agamas and ‘Dravidianised the Vedas a bit

    These references may be found in Pargiter’s Books as well.

    Sources:

    http://ancientvoice.wikidot.com/article:valmiki-ramayana