I remember when I was a child I used to play near a small neighborhood Shiva Temple. The linga placed inside used to amaze me and I often wondered why people put milk and leaves on it. No doubt I liked the prasaad I got after grown-ups finished worshiping the God.
So that was childhood - a time when we accept things without questioning them. But is it true that we have been visited by extra-terrestrials in "super ancient" times and we started considering them heroes, wrote Vedas for them? And then again when they left our planet suddenly we kept their memories that later turned into folklore and mythology?
The Vedas are full of fantastical tales of Indra's wars with the serpent demon Vritra. How Indra smashed him with his well-known weapon - Vajra. How Indra helped the Vedic people against other tribes and "destroyed their abodes for the faithful". Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni.. these Gods -- were they extra-terrestrials helping our Aryan ancestors?
Thousands of mysteries awaiting someone to solve them.. and what we are doing here is fighting over some self-centered false faiths claiming this and that. Well not all of us are doing that though.
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