Just to pick up from my last post, I’ll say that the creation of man in Genesis 1 speaks of the creation of the Cro magnon humans–and in Genesis 2 we have the later (many thousands of years later) creation of Adam and Eve.
Now, it appears that–way before the arrival of Odin and his people (the inhabitants of the Black Sea coastal city of Asgard) in Scandinavia–people from Southeast Asia arrived in lands that one day would become known as Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
The most compelling piece of evidence to support this argument is that some ancient Scandinavian buildings are virtually identical–in terms of architectural style–to temples in Southeast Asia: specifically, structures in Thailand.
There was contact between Northern Europe and South Asia long ago. People were moving back and forth between Scandinavia, Persia (today Iran), India, Burma, Thailand, and other areas of Southeast Asia.
It appears that Southeast Asians arrived at and settled in Scandinavia. They constructed some buildings that share the same architectural style as the buildings back home in South Asia. When Odin and the Asgardians–the ancestors of the Swedes–arrived in Scandinavia much later, they most likely adopted these Asian buildings for their own use.
I’ve heard that there are similarities between the Lithuanian language and Hindi. There was a lot of movin’ goin’ on.
