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Evolution of Language, Religion and Culture

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Different languages and language regions are found to have evolved from  the mode of transportation and other means of communication available  between mankind.  The religions evolved in the process of coordinating different  language regions.  All the major religions of the world appear to have Indian origin.   The culture has evolved to coordinate different religions.  The concept of god  seems to have been introduced due to lack of understanding of others rather than due  to lack of understanding about things in general.  The word God itself evolved from Hindi/Urdu word 'ghoda' meaning horse. The dog pronouncing opposite to God is due to its stay at home protecting it.  JHVH also derived from Hindi/Urdu sentences.  The scripts evolved to flow either left to right or right to left depending on the direction of flow of the rivers in whose banks the religions and the languages evolved.  In the process of evolution  the large deviations, directly opposing the original evolution, could not survive.   This theory is in good agrement with observational data.

According to Darwin's Theory of Evolution the living species have higher  probability of survival in the most favorable environmental conditions.  The most important of these  is the availability of water.  Since the Himalayans are the highest and snow mountains in  the world there are many rivers formed around them by high rainfall and snow melting.   Hence the human beings must have evolved in this region the earliest.  Even if they have evolved  in other regions they would have migrated to this region.  This region is mostly covered  by India and Pakistan.  But India, being towards the equator and the sea, gets higher  monsoons and rainfall.  Hence India is the most favorable place for human beings which are the  most superior of all the organisms.  The highest population density in this region is the  most evidence of it.

In the early stages the fastest mode of transport available was by horse which  can travel about 1000 km in a day.  Since the food materials can not stay for more than one  day without getting spoiled the people can not normally move to distance more than about  500 km from a central place, returning back in one day.  Such a movement can  allow communication within a region of 1000 - 1000 km only.  Hence various language regions  of approximately the above dimensions are formed.  This can be clearly observed in India and

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European countries. Other larger language regions must have been formed either after  the technology was developed or due to their different habits such as non vegetarian food,  dry food etc.  The sharp boundaries between these regions can be due to the subsequent  formation of empires covering the respective regions restricting the communication with other  regions.

Later on when the facilities were improved to enable larger movement the  religions have evolved for better coordination between different languages.  Inability to  understand others had been attributed to God.   The word 'God' itself had evolved from the word 'ghoda' which means horse in Hindi/Urdu.  The slight dissimilarity between these two words is due to the person riding by horse, attributed to God, rather than the horse itselfThis indicates the coordination between Hindi/Urdu with the well known 'ghoda' and English with the unknown God.  The dog pronouncing exactly opposite to God is due to its stay at home protecting from thieves and robbers as the horse travels around places.  The Hindu religion covering India, Christian  religion covering European countries and Islam covering Gulf countries are the evidence of it.   The Sikh religion which is restricted to only one language region, Punjabi, has only a book  and no human like God.  This is another evidence.

In the process of eliminating the concept of God culture has evolved for  better communication between the people by cultural means such as plays, arts, songs,  puppets and dances etc.  Since these are multidimensional methods they are very effective  in communication.  The cultural revolution of China etc., are evidences of it.

There appears to be no definite demarcation between these evolutions and there  is some overlap.  For example the Hindu religion is associated with culture also  having multidimensional methods of communication and English Drama has started in church  [1]. Similarly the Muslim religion is in a single large language region and consequently there  is little importance for culture in this religion.  There is also mono atheism in Muslims.   Even though there were other religion at the time of  writing Koran they could not last long.  It  is also based on the language in the sense that the Arabs wanted to protect the language by  the religion.  In contrast the Hindus have several gods possibly evolving from several  language regions.  These gods also have human like qualities.  This trend was present to some  extent in Christian religion also.  For example Jesus Christ is called the son of God and also  there are many prophets in it.  But essentially the over all evolution is towards the coordinated  and cooperative living of the mankind.

As can be understood from what we have discussed till now the concept of god  and religion is created by the aliens rather the persons who are already living there.  The  language of Hindu religion is Sanskrit but its script is Devanagari script which is same as that of  Hindi language, a language spoken by the largest population i.e., the largest area in India.   The alien can easily learn the script by observing a book when the native person is reading  the same book loudly.  But learning its meaning is very difficult.  There can also be aliens  from other language regions and they all would have tried to unite like the minorities now.   Hence they can not use their individual language for communication.  Hence the Sanskrit which  is closely related to the language of Rig Veda, a Hindu religious book, is not even a  spoken language but is a created language.  The Hindi speaking area is spread around the  river Ganges with plenty of water and consequently plenty of food.  Due to left right flow of Ganges and the beginning of Brahmapurta the devanagari and other scripts flow from left to right.  Since the evolution of Islam started in the banks of the river Indus in pakistan and the last part of Brahmaputra in Bangladesh ending in Arab countries their scripts flow from right to left like the flow of these rivers.  The small portion of Urdu speaking Bangladesh is a strong evidence for this since the river Brahmaputra turns from rightwards to leftwards in Bangladesh just before joining the sea.   Hence the Hindu religion  says that the food should be offered to the god before eating.  There is also a proverb in  Sanskrit called "Athithi Devo Bhava"  meaning "guest is god"  which combined with the earlier  one means that the alien should be fed first before eating himself.  This principle of feeding the

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Hungry is also present in Christian religion.  But it is also present in Muslim religion since  the Arab countries can not produce any food, they depend on other countries for food and  the Muslim religions is followed more in Arab countries along with Pakistan.  This leads us  to the conclusion that all the major religions of the world are of Indian origin.  The  evidences for this hypothesis can be given as follows.

Since the Hindu religion has evolved with the introduction of Sanskrit in Hindi  speaking region of India the native Hindi speaking people have understood the importance of  the religion and possibly wanted to spread the religion by highly spoken Hindi language  instead of following a created language like Sanskrit. Since the languages Hindi and Urdu are  similar the Urdu speaking Pakistanis living in the banks of the river Indus would have travelled  to Saudi Arabia and the Hindi speaking Indians living in the banks of the river Ganges  would have travelled to Europe. The Hindi speaking person travelled to Europe do not have  any problem of food and his primary concern is the shelter.  Hence he tried to pretend himself  to be belonging to the native Europe to find a shelter there. In that process he had used  Hindi sentences like "Jaha se aap aaye vaha se mai aya" meaning "I came from where you  come from" and "Jaha aap rahte hai vaha my rahta hoo" meaning "I stay where you stay" etc.   In all these sentences the common words are "Jaha" and "Vaha".  These words when  combined and converted to consonants become JHVH.  Since the vowels in Hindi are only attached  as part of consonants the name of the god is written as JHVH in the first book of the  old Testament of the Bible which was originally written in Hebrew with only consonants  [2]. The modern Pitman shorthand language for English is also an Indian like language. Similarly   Islam has evolved in Arab countires from Pakistan which was a part of India situated on  the other side of the river Indus. Similar to Sanskrit adapting devanagri script the  Pakistanis have later adapted modified Arabic script. Again the Budhism, one of the religions of  Indian origin created by Gowtham Budha, had spread over the hundreds of million of people of  Far East. The most famous of the stories of Budha are from the Jataka Tales written in  Pali language (a deviation of Sanskrit, the language of early India) now literary language if   Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand [3].

In the process of evolution of these concepts therer are incidents that they are  altered greatly and directly opposed the original concepts but these opposing concepts could  not survive for a long time proving that this systematic evolution is for peaceful,  comfortable and coordinated living of the mankind. Some of them can be listed here. The early  Socialists are Utopians. The word Utopia meaning "no where", is the work of that name published  by Sir Thomas More in 1516 in which Utopia was the name of an imaginary island that  enjoyed approximate perfection [4]. This Utopia can be interpreted to be similar to Swarga of  Hidu religion where the humger and death are basent. Hence it is a concept closely related  to religion. Even otherwise we have already seen that the socialist cultural revolution is  the advanced evolution from the language through the religion.  But the socialists and  communists consider the religion to be their enemy rather than their predecessor disconnecting  themselves from their origin. Because of this the Socialism in Russia could not survive and  slowly Russia is turning towards capitalism.  Even if the communication is clearly possible there

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can be other phenomena such as scientific enquiries which can not be answered by the  presently knowledg but can be possibly answered at a later time.  In that case if two persons are  having two different ideas about the same phenomenon then they quarrel  each other disturbing  the peace. If the concept of God is there then the peace is maintained until right idea is proved  to be right.

English is the language spoken in  9th century by the people who have entered  Britain from various neighbouring countries [5]. Continuing the same trend Britishers, French  etc., entered many countries for the purpose of business and spreading the culture.  Even  though the original intention was good it slowly turned into imperialism.  This is a backward  step towards a situation like the older language regions separated by empires.  Hence it could  not survive.  But their language, culture and developmental activities remained.  Since the  English is the language evolved without the concept of god and religion it was able to spread to  the highest percentage of population of the world. But in this process several freedom  struggles have taken place and several lives were lost destroying the peace.

The non-violence of Mahatma Gandhi in Indian freedom struggle also appeared to  the British to be having infinite confidence which can only be possessed by God.  These  days also some people pray to Gandhi like God.  This concept of God again had helped in  the peaceful understanding and communication between Britishers and Indians and fetched  India the freedom.

Even now some countries and governments are giving unnecessary extra  importance to regional languages going backwards.  At the same time some countries are  imposing English destroying peace.  These two are the two extremes. The peaceful development,  and coordinated and comfortable living is possible only by smooth transition and evolution  in linguistic, spiritual, cultural and scientific progress.

References

[1]     Collier's Encyclopedia - William D. Halsey, Editorial Director, Louis  Shorer, Macmillan Educational Corporation, New York, P.F. Collier Inc., London and  New York, 1978, Vol . 9 P- 207 D

[2]     Collier's Encyclopedia - Vol 4, P-118.

[3]     Collier's Encyclopedia - Vol 4, P-659.

[4]     Collier's Encyclopedia - Vol 21, P-121

[5]     Collier's Encyclopedia - Vol 9, P-202.

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