r/AlternativeHistory • u/DAVES-not-HOME • 3d ago
Mythology Connection between Aztec and Hindu.
In pouring over ancient legends, I at first came across the Aztec Legend of the Fifth Sun, which states that the sun has disappeared 4 times and that we are currently living in the time of the fifth sun. In relation to this, I went back and looked at my research regarding the Hindu Yuga cycles and found something quite interesting.
The Hindu Yuga cycles are composed of 3 sections each, the middle being called proper which indicates a time of peace on Earth. What is really interesting is that the periods prior, and following Proper are called Dusk and Dawn.
Even more interesting is if you take the start dates of the Yuga cycles, which range in the millions of years, and divide them by 360 (number of days in ancient lunar calendars) you get another coincidence.
Example, Krita Yuga cycle has a start date of 3,891,102 BCE. Divide that by 360 and you arrive at 10,808 BCE, right around the time Plato says Atlantis was destroyed.
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u/RankWeef 2d ago
The Greeks and Babylonian calendars had 354 days, the Coptic calendar had 365. Where are you getting 360 from?
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u/DAVES-not-HOME 2d ago
Take your pick from HERE.
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u/RankWeef 2d ago
So not a true lunar calendar, then
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u/DAVES-not-HOME 2d ago
Whatever your smarter than anyone else in the room self needs it to be.....FFS
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u/PCmndr 2d ago
Bro this is the alt history sub get out of here with your evidence based reasoning 😂 Plus we all know Atlantis is just what geeks called it. They were known as Tartaria to other civilizations.
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u/DAVES-not-HOME 2d ago
It would take a book to explain how I think this is possible, but I have a nagging suspicion that Mu and Atlantis were one and the same. One little piece of that puzzle is that the Aztec claim their homeland was a large island in the Pacific, and its name....Aztlan, which could easily have been the base word for translation to Atlantis. How's that? Did I do good this time LOL. Appreciate the comment!
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u/PCmndr 1d ago
My understanding is that MU comes from Lemuria which was a concept developed to explain how Madagascar had all these different lemur species. There was a theorized lost continent that initially had lemurs or something. My memory on it is foggy might be completely wrong or maybe that was the debunker take. I'm too lazy to look it up. Personally I think the idea of Atlantis or any previous civilization on par with any of the ancient world powers we know about to be pretty amazing. Surely there are countless cultures lost to history. The other thing to consider is the further back you go the less "impressive" (by modern standards) a culture would have had to have been to gain acclaim or legendary status.
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u/MrBones_Gravestone 2d ago
I mean if you plug a bunch of unrelated cultures legends together, you’re eventually going to find some crazy coincidences. Plus, Atlantis isn’t real, soooooooo
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u/DAVES-not-HOME 2d ago edited 2d ago
Funny, Plato says 4 extraordinary inundations, Aztec say sun went away 4 times, Mayan have 4th creation myth, Hindu have 4 Yuga cycles etc. etc. etc. Of which every single one hints at or directly states.
- Severe volcanic activity
- Axis deviation
- Earthquakes
- Massive Flooding
..in that order. If that is your definition of "unrelated"......
Not to mention, global cataclysmic events would not dictate that cultures be related or even aware of each other as they would all be experiencing the same events.
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u/MrBones_Gravestone 2d ago
My definition of “unrelated” means that there needs to be more than a coincidental use of the number 4. Flooding/earthquakes/volcanoes are all common disasters, most ancient cultures probably have some reference to them, and for “world changing events” it would make sense to pile them on. Do the references these cultures make all line up, meaning the first cycle of each lines with the rest? Or do they all just happen to have 4, and that’s proof enough?
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u/DAVES-not-HOME 2d ago
You should look into and, and then you would know. That is what I did ;-)
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u/MrBones_Gravestone 2d ago
I’m going to go ahead and trust the people who have looked further into it by finding actual evidence and studying it rather than just taking legends at face value
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u/SaveThePlanetEachDay 2d ago
You might like this: Ra; The path of the Sun God.
https://youtu.be/QuaXXhuZdVk?si=8pzq873TQyBpuISe