Re: THE ARYAN INVASION MYTH

On Jun 18, 11:02 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 17, 7:51 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 17, 6:43 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jun 17, 1:06 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 17, 9:47 am, gitarthi <skbhattachar...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes. Homer in 12th century BCE wrote that soldiers from Avanti
(Ujjaini) were involved in the Trojan war. Hindus did go out in the
ancient times from India, There are many references in the ancient
texts saying so.
Homer did not write in the 12th century.
Straw man.
He wrote "12th century BCE".
All right, if you were too stupid to comprehend it the first time:

Homer did not write in the 12th century BCE.

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Yes. Homer in 12th century BCE wrote that soldiers from Avanti
(Ujjaini) were involved in the Trojan war.

Homer's time was several centuries after the 12th century BCE, so no, he
didn't write that or anything else whatsoever in the 12th century BCE.



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If you can't address whether Homer mentioned Avanti and whether it is
the same as Ujjain, STFU.

There isn't any point addressing a claim rooted in someone stubborn
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The primary aim of the poster is to offer a Western source as evidence
of migrations of Indians out of India in ancient times. Instead of
nitpicking extraneous issues, if you have facts that speak to this,
let us hear them.

The wiki article on the Trojan war says

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While they were away, Memnon of Ethiopia, son of Tithonus and Eos,
[110] came with his host to help his stepbrother Priam.[111] He did
not come directly from Ethiopia, but either from Susa in Persia,
conquering all the peoples in between,[112] or from the Caucasus,
leading an army of Ethiopians and Indians.[113

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Since this is after the death of Hector, one would assume that this
information is not from the Iliad.

Assuming that the Trojan war is not a myth, Wiki also says that

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The Ancient Greeks thought the Trojan War was a historical event that
had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy
was located in modern day Turkey near the Dardanelles.

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So the poster conflated when the war supposedly happened and when it
was written about. Big deal.

But apparently , shaking the newsgroup regulars from their iron belief
in the direction of the legendary "IndoEuropean" migration is not
something to be lightly attempted.
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