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Ancient Chinese Monk Describes India
DIR By: rp
Date: February 26, 2023, 11:41 am
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Re: Ancient Chinese Monk Describes India
DIR By: rp
Date: January 23, 2024, 11:05 am
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Re: Turanian diffusion
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: May 1, 2024, 1:56 am
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Ancient Western Discriminative Racial Ideology
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> ...Second, although the Old Javanese Ramayana was a palace
commissioned text, written for and by a male-dominated elite, it
was read in public performances and thus became a popular work.
This story is one of the most famous epic stories in Indonesia
and India (Chatterji 1967, 69). In ancient India, the Ramayana
was recited in public with the intention of improving the
spiritual well-being of kings and their subjects as well as for
political purposes (Saran and Khanna 2004, 10). Some researchers
argue that the Indian Ramayana was composed to support Aryan
Western civilization (Vyas 1967, 3, 27, A. Sarkar 1987, 11). In
the Indian Ramayana, Rama is represented as taking part in the
spread of Aryan Indo-European culture in southern India (A.
Sarkar 1987, 8). In precolonial Indonesia, the Ramayana was used
to revive the teachings of Hinduism because around the 7th
century Buddhism had become a strong influence in Sumatra, West
Java and Central Java (Sunoto 1992, 50). So great was the
influence of these Old Javanese texts from India that this
influence is still felt today, and in many places in Java the
heroes from Old Javanese texts remain more popular than Islamic
heroes (Creese 2004, 23 -24; Zoetmulder 1974, 23). Its
popularity and political significance are what make the Ramayana
an influential text
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> In both versions of the Ramayana, evil characters are depicted
as having dark skin color and are represented through objective
correlations that symbolize darkness and imply negative
feelings. First, dark and black skin colors are used to imply
suffering. In the Ancient Javanese Ramayana, a female ascetic
whose skin was "as dark as kohl" (Ramayana 97-98, 148) tells how
her skin turned black as punishment for eating the flesh of the
god Vishnu. He considers his conversion to black as "the origin
of his suffering" (Ramayana 150). The use of darkness to signify
someone's suffering can also be seen in the scene where Sita is
sad because she is separated from her husband. In this scene he
is represented "like a new moon darkened by his suffering"
(Ramayana 300). Thus darkness and dark skin are combined in
these scenes through a sense of suffering.
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Source :
White, Skin Color, Race, and Beauty in Transnational Indonesia
by L. Ayu Saraswati Page 36 and 49
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Re: Ancient Chinese Monk Describes India
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 1, 2024, 4:02 am
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"Ancient Western"
Not traceable to Moses or Aristotle, therefore not Western. At
most you can blame the Vedics.
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Re: Ancient Chinese Monk Describes India
DIR By: rp
Date: May 1, 2024, 8:29 pm
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This makes no sense. Most of the Vedics probably had dark skin.
Yaduvanshi/Chandravanshi Krishna's name etymologically means
"Black". The reason some villains in Hindu mythology are
depicted darker is because the Vanavasi (non Aryans) most likely
had darker skin compared to the Aryans (i.e. Ram, who was a
Suryavanshi). More important than the skin color is the face
shape, as you will see almost all "rakshasas" (demons) are
depicted with a wide face and thick mustache. This is also a
perfect caricature of the typical South Indian politician/thug,
which is why it causes so much seethe in the vulgar plebian
hordes.
I don't know even know why Vedics would have preference for
light skin, but I am willing to consider explanations.
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