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Who weer the dravidians?
The Dravidians represent one of humanity's oldest surviving civilizational lineages — almost certainly the builders of the Indus Valley Civilization, whose urban sophistication predates Rome by two millennia. Alternative researchers treat them as the remnant carriers of a pre-Aryan spiritual and technological tradition that was systematically marginalized after the Indo-Aryan migrations. Their folk religion, village goddess cults, and serpent veneration point to a cosmological system entirely distinct from and older than Vedic Brahminism. The question of Dravidian origins touches the deepest unresolved controversies in South Asian archaeology, genetics, and comparative mythology.
Evidence
- Graham Hancock, in his investigations of submerged coastal sites, drew attention to Tamil oral traditions and the Sangam literature's references to a lost southern landmass — Kumari Kandam — a sunken civilization antedating known history.
- Michael Cremo's research into forbidden archaeology is directly relevant here: anomalous skeletal and artifact finds from the Deccan Plateau and Sri Lanka suggest human habitation at dates that orthodox archaeology suppresses.
- Sitchin pointed to shared cosmological vocabulary around serpent deities, underworld navigation, and divine kingship as evidence of a common pre-diluvial cultural substrate.
- Hancock treats this alongside Robert Schoch's work on geological catastrophism as corroborating evidence that technologically sophisticated Dravidian-related peoples predated the mainstream timeline by thousands of years.
- Cremo argues the Dravidian civilizational record has been artificially compressed to fit the post-3000 BCE Indus Valley window.