[Buddha-l] Brahma & Abraham

[Dan Lusthaus]

Shi'an,

Before you get too deeply into this silliness, consider the source:

Moisés y los Extraterrestres

The means "Moses and the Extraterrestials". The rest has about as much 
credibility.

Abraham came from the city of Ur in Qasdim (anglicized as Chaldees), which 
is in present day Iraq, not India.

The rest is one huge ahistorical mess. E.g., Melchi-zedek is not a Kashmiri 
word (that language was not around 3500 years ago); it is ordinary Hebrew. 
Melchi (from melekh = king) is 1st person possessive, so "My king". Tsedek 
means righteousness. "Righteousness My King".

There was some conflationary confusion on the part of the Romans about the 
Jews and Indians (gymnosophists) that Josephus is reporting (along with 
numerous other theories), which shows that Artur's poetic imagination has a 
long history. According to Clearchus of Soli (a student of Aristotle's, who 
may have traveled to Afghanistan), the gymnosophists (i.e., Indian wise men 
and yogis) were descended from the Magi, and the Jews from the gymnosophists 
(the web page only quotes the second part, which is no longer extant in the 
fragments attributed to Clearchus, but quoted by Josephus -- whose text has 
been tampered with many times, esp. on issues such as this. That opinion was 
unusual even back then. On Megasthenes see
http://tinyurl.com/yl6wo8y

That web page seems to operate on the principle that if you pile up enough 
b.s., it will start to smell attractive. Some of the b.s has a long 
pedigree, some is newly minted.

I would recommend researching (you can start with google) the various names, 
etc. mentioned on that page.

Dan