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    Posted: 19-Feb-2007 at 16:57
Perhaps words can trace the movement of ideas. Sanskrit bramanya means "religiously", the highest level of usage of IE brih "praise. expand" Brahma.  Persian bramaniya means "reverently", a slightly lower sense of praise.     Russian, Polish and German bram means "ship top-mast" for displaying admirals' and state flags. Old Swedish bram was "state.pomp",
 > Old English breme as "high.famous.noble". Evidently, bram was used in Europe for the prestige of the state, so in that lesser sense Europeans are brahmins. The linga stones in Ireland are thought to relate to royal authority, and so  Irish were  saivan in that sense. The Vishnu idol of Russia is consistent with that influence of European brahmin saivans.
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  Quote Omar al Hashim Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Feb-2007 at 19:50
No.

Although there could well be a similarity in meanings behind similar sounding words. They are all in the Indo-European languages group. This does not extend to any sort of religous or caste similarity between the Brahmins of India and Europeans.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20-Feb-2007 at 00:30

lol again some indian hindu comes along claiming the world belongs to india lol. you guys are such jokes

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  Quote Hellios Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20-Feb-2007 at 16:12
Originally posted by aararararar

lol again some indian hindu comes along claiming the world belongs to india lol. you guys are such jokes
 
Seven of your first & only eight posts are efforts to start flame wars.  Hasta la vista...
 
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  Quote chimera Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Feb-2007 at 20:46
(Wikipedia)"In Irish mythology, Danu or Dana, also called Anu or Ana, was the mother goddess of the Tuatha D Danann (peoples of the goddess Danu), although little is recorded about her as a character. Her Welsh equivalent is Dn. Based on the evidence of place-names, such as the river Danube (Latin: Danuvius), Dniestr, Dniepr and Don, she may have been worshipped throughout the Celtic world. Indeed, the presence of a goddess named Danu in Hindu mythology, associated with water and mother of a race of Asuras called the Danavas, may indicate a very ancient Proto-Indo-European origin for this figure. The name *dhanu seems to have originally meant "swift".The reconstructed lexis of the Proto-Celtic language as collated by the University of Wales [1] suggests that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic *Danoā. This Proto-Celtic word connotes the semantics of Giving, Bountiful and Flow. This apparent semantic connotation has led Dr. John Koch at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies to propose that the original nature of this deity may well have been a personification of overflowing abundance If this theory is correct, it would account for the deitys associations with the a motherly ideal, the fertility of the earth and with rivers whose overflowing water surpluses may have been seen as a materialization of her presence."
The same point by P Ellis was published in Hindu Times:
duism Today | Feb 2000
Our Druid Cousins. Meet the brahmins of ancient Europe, the high caste of Celtic society. By Peter Berresford Ellis. The Celtic people spread from their ...
www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2000/2/2000-2-16.shtml - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

The Druids were strongly class-divided.  It's not that they were Brahmins, but it seems they used "bram" and the Shiva linga stone for European religions which also had Danu as a god.

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  Quote K. V. Ramakrishna Rao Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01-Mar-2007 at 18:28

Many historical facts of Druids / Celts have been suppressed by the British during the past and they do now also, as scholars point out.

Their periodical festivals are also banned even today and only some news, we are getting, in spite of the "openness" of media, access to information etc.
 
So more details on them would be welcome, particularly from their progeny for factual happenings in UK.


Edited by K. V. Ramakrishna Rao - 01-Mar-2007 at 18:29
History is not what was written or is written, but it is actually what had happened in the past.
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