Of Aliens and Ramayana

Check Diwakar's Blog - Interesting point he makes about our perception of the so called "outlandish" artifacts that are described in the Ramayana - if art imitates life and the culture, arts, crafts, poetry, history of a period is inextricably bound to what are contemporary occurrences at that period of time, is the backdrop of Ramayana fictional or is it a hyperbolic yet real depiction of ancient Indian society?

On a related note, there has been so much hand-wringing about Astrology lately - consider this - why would a society which was intellectually so advanced and mathematically evolved (number 0, PI, vedic math, integral calculus - you surely get the picture?) come up with balderdash like astrology unless....? I think Astrology as we know it today is a highly diluted version of what it was originally - I also think that it was a highly precise science and that it was much too accurate for anybody's comfort which is why it was corrupted and watered down to what it has become today. (Maybe I really should have a disclaimer here that this blog may contain "Forward looking" statements :) )

BTW - For all you conspiracy theorists, hope all of you have read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.