A Story: Truth or Lie depends on the viewer's perception.
In ancient times, it would take several months to travel from India to Middle East.
By history, Indus Valley Civilization is the oldest civilization which is still surviving today. It was a thriving civilization with technology, trade, Arts, Culture, Philosophy & Population that has its existence in many parts of India. The Indus Valley was situated along the banks of the River Saraswati which has dried up now.
In those ancient times, People from Indus Valley were engaged in business and trade with many other civilizations in the Middle-East. Europe in those times were still cavemen or busy hunting animals for food. Different kind of traders and salesmen from Indus Valley used to go middle east for trading, mostly with Spices, Cotton, Iron & Steel, Ayurvedic medicines, arts and handicrafts.
Traders and their accomplices used to get tired of their several months of journey through rough seas & the extreme cold & desert conditions through the Himalayas and deserts of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia etc. They used to take rest as soon as they would reach the lands of Middle East with the locals and
the locals would welcome them. Children used to eagerly waiting for them in the hope of any gifts being brought for them. Sometimes they were fortunate enough to get gifts from the traders and the elders used to drink and enjoy with them after the sunset. It was every society's life style back in thousands of year ago. Being curious about to meet people from other civilizations & different land with different language and culture.
Sometimes they would share stories and games they would play at their home. In the process, each of the Indus Valley traders would share stories of Ramayan or Mahabharat and the great characters involved in that. The people from middle east would get amazed & more curious about the stories and the powerful & godly characters. Nobody kept diaries those days to keep up the notes and it would be foolish to expect journalism in ancient times. But yes, news used to spread very fast in those times and similarly such stories from India were widespread in Middle East. But those big, interesting stories carry vast information and obviously stories were spread with half information or with half truth sometimes.
Men always had unexpected assumptions & dreams. In such way, When there were no Indian Traders for several months, native men gathered and discussed the stories told by the Indian traders but all with half information. Some said they had some gods & Goddesses, some said they had powerful weapons, some were more curious about their looks, some were not interested, some were confused.
Everybody used to get more & more possessive and affected by the stories and those natives would wait for next batch of traders to continue the stories and that would happen eventually.
As more & more half information gathered around men, more ambitions and dreams were nurtured in the minds of those natives. It is always predictable that anything made with half information & knowledge would be disastrous and would serve sinister plans. Generations went by and those stories were still inherited by the younger generations with lesser knowledge as they were not very smart enough to carry those messages orally like Indians used to.
Sinister plans & dreams were plotted with those half truth or more or less all stories told by the Indian traders were now severed with lies, bigotry, hatred, jealousy and worse. That is somehow the birth of religion that has started in Jerusalem with Judaism followed by Christianity & Islam. Krishna was most probably misspelled or pronounced and was called Christianity. That were the times when the world changed forever and turned into a bomb about to explode in near future. This is the birth of religion, the three Abrahamic religions altogether somehow at the same place.
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