The Rig Veda, Egypt & Norse Mythology

The Rigveda is one of the earliest specimens of a literary work in Indo-European language but for over a century numerous authors have concluded that the Rigveda is a mythology that was created in India. This book not only provides tangible evidence that the Rigveda was brought to India by migrants but that those migrants came from many places in the Near East and Egypt and they brought their Near Eastern and Egyptian gods with them. It also gives additional evidence that the stories from Norse Mythology, which stem from an Indo-European substratum, also contain many of these same Near Eastern and Egyptian gods as well as similar symbolic astronomy and chronology. Liny Srinivasan reveals the toponyms from the Epic-Puranas that are related to Near Eastern locations and the secret of Gotra names and their relationship to Near Eastern and Egyptian place names. Dr. Srinivasan presented her ideas to the Near Eastern scholar, Cyrus Gordon, who found them so compelling that he wrote about her work in his Ugaritic Textbook[1] "A Bengali by the name of Mrs. Liny Srinivasan, Ph.D., became interested in a segment of vocabulary known as the Desi words which have no Indo-European etymology. Bengali scholars had assumed that the Desi words were the legacy of the aborigines who inhabited the land before the advent of the Indo-Europeans. For twelve years Liny gathered and studied the Desi words and found a number of them in the Hebrew dictionaries and in my Ugaritic glossaries." He also says that there was a "...quantum leap touched off by Liny Srinivasan's discovery of the Northwest Semitic origin of numerous "Desi" words in Bengali."[2] Her realization that there was a Near Eastern and Egyptian provenance for the Vedic myths, was not only startling, but revolutionary.
Christopher Johnsen explores the relationship between Norse Mythology and its links to Astronomy, Chronology and Rig Vedic mythology keeping in mind Mrs. Srinivasan's discoveries and the results are also quite exciting with the discovery that many Norse gods have counterparts in the Near East and Egypt. While it is quite surprising that places as far distant from one another as Scandinavia and India seem to share an ancient, common linguistic and cultural milieu, it is even more surprising that this connection seems to originate from an even older part of the world that we call Egypt.

[1] Ugaritic Textbook, Cyrus Herzl Gordon, 1998, Page XI, Pontifical Biblical Institute
[2] The Near East Background of the RigVeda, Cyrus Herzl Gordon, in Ancient Egyptian and Mediterranean Studies in Memory of William A. Ward, 1998.