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   Who wants to make it a "myth"?  Who says it was an "invasion"?   
      
   Answer, the self glory wing nuts radicals want it to be "myth" because it   
   contridicts their own origin myths.   
      
   The first vedic prayers are proof enough.  They date in written form at   
   about 3500 years ago and were oral only before that.  They had no written   
   language until then.   
      
   They were self described catttle nomadic herders who are self described as   
   coming into s.  asia from the nw.  and describing geographic items there. .   
      
   By the time they arrived the indus complex culture had come and gone and   
   there  is not one wisper in the prayers about them.   
      
   When the history is attacked it is most commonly aimed at long past   
   evidence and an anti-s. asian motivation is invented to explain it.  That   
   is what took up most of this article.   
      
   They ignore the modern evidence of genetics, archaeology and linguistics.   
   Indian scholars who are not wing nuts support the modern evidence and add   
      
   Why do the wing nuts care?  Because they have a mythical account of s.   
   asia being the origin of everything and the sanskrit language of the nomads   
   as the orriginal language of all others.   
      
   They have a similar idea about   
   religion, as the nomadic vedic people spoke sanskrit and the prayers were   
   written in it, they want that to be evidence s. asia   
   is the origin of religion.   
      
      
   One simple fact tosses all those claims.  Tribals are the original people   
   of s. asia and their languages and religions are the kind of the originals.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)