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I continue to dig deeper into the metamorphosis of Hinduism, and I can’t help but notice the similarities between ancient Vedic—particularly the religion and language—and ancient European (Greek and Roman) cultures.

Take, for instance, the Gods in their respective pantheons:

• In Vedic Hinduism, Indra was the leader of the Gods and had a thunderbolt as a weapon. He was also the God of War, Storms and Rain.

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  Indra later metamorphosed into Shiva, who lived on Mount Kailash. Zeus, the Supreme God who leads all the other Gods, has a thunderbolt as a weapon and lives on Mount Olympus. Another parallel is the Norse God of Thunder, Thor.

• Gayatri is the mother goddess who was born first before all the other Gods in the Hindu pantheon, and is regarded as a personification of God in a feminine form.

  Gaia, a primordial mother Goddess in Hellenistic Greece who preceded the Olympian Gods and was described as a power or force rather than a deity, the same as Gayatri.

• Varuna is the God of the S