Ancient Stories

The story of Man's creation in Genesis and the banishment of Adam and Eve may have descended from the Vedas story of Adima and Heva in Ceylon. The similarities in the two tales are compelling and the differences between them are fascinating, especially in the differences between Heva's and Eve's creation, and their roles in the story.

Nearly 2,000 years ago the King of Ayodhya had a dream in which God ordered him to send his daughter on a ship to meet her husband in another land. He complied and that dream led to the Karak Dynasty in Korea. Descendants of that Korean King and the Princess of Ayodhya are said to number over 6 million in Korea, nearly 10% of its population, and the marriage closely binds the people of Korea and India to this day.

It sounds like a 3,000-year-old fable handed down for millennia. Still, the story of the Prince of Bahwal, the prince who rose from the dead, ends, we think, in 1946 after several court cases with both British and Indian judges deciding that the prince had indeed returned from death and the kingdom was rightfully his. There are volumes of evidence in this case, and perhaps even more speculation, theory, and gossip and it all provides a fascinating Ancient Story (with an equally fascinating ending).

We know the names Thor and Oden, and we certainly know the names Sweden and Norway. Those names, those stories, and those cultures all have very ancient roots from far, far, away lands. These cultures began in a surprising place.   

Hear an overview of how civilization moved out of Africa, first landing in what is now India and then spreading influence and culture to the Mediterranean and Europe. See how the trail is clearly marked by the names of people and places and our favorite mythologies

Did you know that the mythological Norse God Thor may have ties to, and may have been derived from a much more ancient God, from a much more ancient civilization, far away from the fiords? In fact, the roots of our cultures run deep in time, and those roots spread around the globe. Come on a journey with us as we connect those roots in ways you probably never would have imagined. This is the Ancient Stories Podcast.