Not entirely relevant other than that the following shows what one or more(?) thinkers from some centuries ago believed:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->" I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."
Voltaire<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Got this from those snippets on the right hand side of Haindava Keralam entries.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->" I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."
Voltaire<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Got this from those snippets on the right hand side of Haindava Keralam entries.)