3) Ramayana - First Steps

Well, to explore the immense civilization that is Indian civilization, the best thing to do is , as always, to follow a story, this time that of the Ramayana. The Ramayana is THE great Indian epic, weaving together across thousands of pages a passionate love story, political intrigue, a war involving wonderful races – and much more. In short, this great text tells how Prince Rama is removed from the throne despite being the rightful heir, and how he agrees to go into exile in the forest and leave Ayodhya, his hometown, accompanied by Sītā, his beloved princess who remains loyal to him despite his downfall, and his equally loyal brother Lakshman.

And it is in this forest that the great adventure really begins, as Princess Sītā is kidnapped by the demon Ravana, who takes her to his island-city of Lanka, generally identified as Sri Lanka. Only after a long and arduous search does Rāma finally rescue Sītā with the help of Hanumān, the general of the monkey army. Ravana is then killed, and Rama reclaims his throne to rule his kingdom with great wisdom.

India is now a very large country, the most populous in the world, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, roughly the same as Europe and the Americas combined. Unfortunately, nationalism is also rampant there, particularly in the context of the conflict with Muslim Pakistan. And if you were to tell an Indian today that their most ancient stories and myths also originate from Arabia, I can assure you that you would be in for a rough time. All the more so since the Pharisians encouraged them in their perversion with their theory separating humanity into Semites and Indo-Europeans. And yet, the Paraklet also came for the Indians. For the Paraklet is the Son of Man – the Son of all Men. Remember?

So then, let us begin, our exploration of the Ramayana. Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya, has three wives, Kausalya, Kaikeyi, and Sumitra, each of whom will have a son. Kausalya gives birth to Rama first. Then Kaikeyi gives birth to Bharata — he is the one who will usurp Rama's throne. Finally, Kausalya gives birth to Lakshman, the faithful brother who will choose to go into exile with Rama. But while the old King Dasaratha initially wanted to appoint Rama as his successor, Queen Kaikeyi reminds him that he had once granted her two wishes that have yet to be fulfilled. She demands that the king keep his word, insisting that Rama be exiled to the forest for 14 years and that her son Bharata be crowned king. King Dasaratha has no choice but to keep his word, and thus exiles Rama, who accepts his fate graciously.

This story of an old king who grants a queen's wish reminded me of the story of Esther. You remember, I already told you about it in my video S5, you know, the one that lasts 7 hours, in which I also talked about great journeys. Well, in the story of Esther, we also find a queen who schemes to get a king to issue a decree contrary to his initial choice. Except that in the story of Esther, it's about exposing Haman, the evil advisor who wanted to exterminate the Jews of Persia.

But whether it's the story of Esther or that of Sita, or rather Rama, both stories begin by telling us about a king who rules over a vast territory: King Ahasuerus, who rules over 127 provinces in the story of Esther, while King Dasaratha's kingdom stretches:

Far as the world's wide bounds extend My glorious empire knows no end. Mine are the tribes in eastern lands, And those who dwell on Sindhu's sands: Mine is Suráshmra, far away, Suvíra's realm admits my sway. My best the southern nations fear, The Angas and the Vangas hear. And as lord paramount I reign O'er Magadh and the Matsyas' plain.

We also find an identical wording in the story of Esther and in the Ramayana (P347) used to describe how the queen is welcomed by the king. Esther is indeed welcomed several times with these words: « What is it, Queen Esther? What do you desire? Even if it were half the kingdom, it would be yours ». In the Ramayana, King Dasaratha welcomes Queen Kaikeyi as follows:

« Whom, darling, wouldst thou punished see? Or whom enriched with lordly fee? Weep not, my lovely Queen, and stay This grief that wears thy frame away; Speak, and the guilty shall be freed. The guiltless be condemned to bleed, The poor enriched, the rich abased, The low set high, the proud disgraced. »

Finally, like Esther, Queen Kaikeyi also arranges to take the King at his word: « Pledge to listen to this prayer of mine then I with confidence will speak ».

4) The origins of India

Well, you might say, this story of a queen who manages to sway an old king ruling over vast territories is just a love story between a very powerful king and his queen — it's « universal » as the Pharisians say. I hear you, I hear you. So let's move on to the Indian myths of world creation, which are also found in the Ramayana. For this great epic begins long before the birth of Rama – in Paleolithic times. In it, we see the Earth in the form of a cow (Prithvi) complaining to Vishnu and urging him to assume his responsibilities. This motif of the Earth complaining about humans is very common. We find it in the Avesta, the Iranian literature, where the Gathas also begin with complaints from the devastated earth.

It is also found in the Epic of Gilgamesh – the great Babylonian text – which also begins with lamentations addressed to the gods against Gilgamesh, who is also the son of a cow. Just as we find it in the Enuma Elish, where Mummu complains to the goddess Tiamat that he cannot sleep because of the noise of men. « Indo-European » civilization on one side, « Semitic » civilization on the other — as those idiotic Pharisians say, who have failed to understand that this motif of a cosmogony opening with the Earth's complaints to the gods is also, of course, Paleolithic.

As for this idea of an original cow, we also find it on the other side of the world — in North Africa, where « Contes Kabyles » (Kabyle Tales)(I 36) tell us how:

In the beginning, there was only the wild buffalo, Izerzer, and the heifer, Taumats, on earth. Both emerged from the dark underground world [...]. Taumats and Izerzer lay down on the seventh day, she stretched out in front of him. He woke up and sniffed the female's genitals. Then he put his finger there and both became aroused. That is why even today, the Kabyles become aroused in the same way. Then the young bull began to lick the heifer's genitals.

After a few twists and turns, Izerzer saw his son mounting his wife and daughter. Furious, he fought his son, but eventually admitted defeat. The buffalo Izerzer then fled and took refuge in the rocky cliffs, wandering there like a lost soul.

As he was alone and could not stop thinking about the cow, his seed was restored within him. He did not know what to do. One day, he saw a flat stone with a hollow surface that looked like a bowl. Unable to contain himself, he approached the stone bowl and sprinkled his seed on it.

Because it was exposed to the sun:

...from the bowl filled with his seed, a pair of gazelles took shape. Meanwhile, other animals came to life, seven pairs in total.

This bowl carved into the rock reminds me of the huge stone slab found in the Canary Islands, which also had small round holes in it.

But let's return to our primordial bull and his seed. We find the same motif in the other great « Indo-Iranian » tradition, the Avesta. The Bundahisn, the book of Creation, mentions in the same way the creation of a primordial bull, GoShoRuN, whose seed is the origin of life on Earth, this seed too is exposed and purified, not by the sun, but by the moon. Finally, the Quran also recalls this story in Sura Az Zumar 39.6: « He created you from one soul. Then He made from it its mate, and He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs dominion. There is no deity except Him, so how are you averted? » - eight pairs of cattle, like the seven or eight pairs in the story of Izerzer's seed warmed by the sun.