Hanuman Sapiens

In the epic of the Ramayana it is described how Lord Ramacandra defeated the demon Ravana, the demon Ravana fled to his kingdom on the island of Sri Lanka, so the army of Lord Ramacandra had to build a bridge to cross with his army from the south coast of India towards Sri Lanka, the vestiges of that bridge still exist and are called “Adam's Bridge”, in India they call it “The Rama Bridge” or “Rama Setu”. This has been corroborated by satellite photos of the area, science has dated it at 1.8 million years.


On the left: artistic conception of the construction of the Rama Bridge; On the right: satellite photo of the submerged remains of the same bridge.

According to the Ramayana, this bridge was built by the army of vanaras (monkey men) who were helping in the recovery of Sita by her consort Rama. According to the Vedic scriptures, the events narrated in the Ramayana occurred in the era called Treta Yuga, that is, approximately 2 million years ago.


Majayuga or cycle of the yugas with their duration, clockwise.

Coincidentally, archaeological science tells us that 2 million years ago the genera called homo rudolfensis, homo skillis, etc. existed on earth. The artistic conceptions of these first homo are very similar to monkey men, coincidentally and exaggeratedly similar to the so-called vanaras.


Left: artistic conception of homo skillis; Right: Artist's conception of the vanaras discussing how to help Rama.

Here it is worth noting a fact that differentiates scientific theories and Vedic narratives.

In the Ramayana the vanaras are mentioned as another species, these monkeys interacted with humans and their king was called Hanuman, it is never said that they were the ancestors or precursors of humans, but rather that they simply shared the planet along with the other human species. In the Vedas it is explained that there are 400,000 human species in the universe, one of them is the vanaras.

In the photo you can see a fossilized human footprint, it has been calculated that it is about 6 million years old, so if 6 million years ago there were already humans on earth, it is even more likely that they would have existed only 2 million years ago.


https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/09/crete-footprints-6-million-years-old/

The official version is, as always, full of assumptions and conjectures, while the Vedic version affirms and its affirmations are being proven.

Bibliography

• The Ramayana
• Srimad Bhagavatam