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  Agastya is mentioned in both the oldest and the youngest layers of the Rigveda , such as in hymn 33 of mandala 7, which is older than mandala 1.He is also mentioned in other three Vedas and the Vedanga literature. In Indian Vedic literature, Canopus is associated with the sage Agastya.To Agastya, the star is said to be the 'cleanser of waters', and its rising coincides with the calming of the waters of the Indian Ocean. He and his wife Lopamudra are the celebrated authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Sanskrit text Rigveda and other Vedic literature. Agastya appears in numerous itihasas and Puranas including the major Ramayana and Mahabharata. He is one of the seven most revered rishis (the Saptarishi) in the Vedic texts,and is revered as one of the Tamil Siddhar in the Shaivism tradition, who invented an early grammar of the Tamil language, playing a pioneering role in the development of medicine and spirituality at Saiva centres in proto-era Sri Lanka and South India. He i...

 The Gondi  are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group. They are the native speakers of the Gondi language which belongs to Dravidian language family. They are one of the largest tribal groups in India.They are spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha. They are listed as a Scheduled Tribe for the purpose of India's system of positive discrimination.They are an Adivasi group or indigenous people of India. Many astronomical ideas were known to ancient Gonds. Gonds had their own local terms for the Sun, Moon, Milky Way, and constellations. Most of these ideas were basis for their time-keeping and calendrical activities. Majority of Gond people still worship nature, but like many other tribes in India Gonds can also be seen following different religions. After the major influence of Hinduism in tribal areas some of them started following Hindu religion, which retains the animist beliefs of nature, an...

In one word modern historians will give an answer: The Canaanites. Canaanites were people who lived in the land of Canaan, an area which according to ancient texts may have included parts of modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. WERE THE CANAANITES ? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM ? Canaan , according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was a son of Ham and grandson of Noah, and was the father of the Canaanites. Now let us explore the Noah myth: Utnapishtim is a character in ancient Mesopotamian mythology. He is tasked by the god Enki, to create a giant ship to be called Preserver of Life in preparation of a giant flood that would wipe out all life. The character appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Biblical story of Noah is copied from the older flood myths seen around the world civilizations. Utnapishtim is one of several mythic characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Ziusudra and the biblical Noah. So lets not even cons...