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3. TIME LINE
CHAPTER 3 TIME LINE
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS, RELIGIOUS DOCUMENTS
AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING SYSTEMS
AND CULTURE
To put it in perspective, here is the general time line of the "Vedic Period" where the oral tradition is said to have prevailed. Elsewhere in the civilization of humanity had developed writing and had their religious writings in place whereas in India Vedism had only the "oral traditions" with all its pitfalls and misuse right in place and extravagant unrealistic claims of antiquity. It was only by the second century BC Rig Veda was written down. The theology of Rig Veda was simply that of nature worship, though we try to impose untruthful symbolic meanings into it now.
