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Is Vedic Astronomy a Weird Mythological Thing

Watch the live stream for more details on the source text:    • "Outlandish," Legendary, "Mythological" As...   Here is the text of the article: At first glance the Fifth Canto's tale of Priyavrata appears to be a wild mythology about a Flat-Earth with an impossibly big "Mount Olympus" at its center, which gets divided by gigantic charriots into seven concentric continents shaped like donuts, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the actual world we inhabit and see every day. On closer inspection, however, it winds up being a description of a heliocentric solar system that is remarkably compatible with the world observed by empirical science. The first thing to sort out is this: The area being transformed in this story is not Earth, it is the sky (bhuva 5.1.31); in other words, the local space above and around the earth. The agents of this transformation are seven temporarily luminous celestial bodies created by Priyavrata's mystic power (5.1.30). The visible solar system indeed consists of seven celestial bodies,⁠1 and cosmologists say they were indeed luminous when they first began to coalesce from the more uniform mass that previously filled local space. The "weight" of these celestial bodies had an effect on space - it created depressions in the space (parikhyāta) which then caused matter to coalesce (upaklpta). This is, to say the least, very reminiscent of Einstein's model of the relationship between gravity and space. The coalesced matter is portrayed as "islands" (dvīpa) surrounded by massive traverses described as "oceans" (sindava - 5.1.31). The distance between the islands is "almost entirely taken up by the oceans around them" (ivābhyantara-dvīpa-samānā - 5.1.33). The distance between the first and second island is half as much as the distance between the second and third, and so on (5.1.32). When mapped out, this looks astonishingly similar to modern maps of the obits in the solar system. Priyavrata created these seven celestial bodies in an attempt to modify the Sun's unequal day/night summar/winter cycles (5.1.30). Therefore it is safe to say he made the Sun the focal point of their orbits. This would mean that the tale describes the creation of a heliocentric solar system, rather astonishing since heliocentrism was not accepted in Western mainstream science until the mid 16th century. This tale primarily describes the formation of the seven realms upwards from earth (bhuva). "Realms" and "planets" may be related, but are not entirely identical. It seems that the planets of our empirical solar system echo the relationship of the seven realms of Bhuva. In other words, bodies in our empirical space are analog to supra-empirical levels of existence in the earth's local universe.  1 In this case, however, the seventh could not be the Sun, for that already exists in the story. It may be a currently destroyed planet between Mars and Jupiter - the asteroid belt. Or we may also remove the Moon from this consideration, and then deal with astounding possibility that this description includes Uranus and Neptune.