The word [ynenk] Kana`aniy can mean descendant or inhabitant of Canaan but more specifically it means "a merchant, trader or trafficker". Were they called traders in Hebrew because they were good business men or was there another aspect to their character and methods that made them so detestable to Israel? Sodom was a city like Canaan and in it the people were a possession of the State as persons.

     Genesis 14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

     The word translated persons here is [vpn] nephesh meaning souls or person. Knowing that the State considers that it owns the people as persons which includes the idea of owning the very souls of men can give new meaning to other versus in the Bible.

     Revelation 18:11-13 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

     merchandise of .... slaves, and souls of men

     These merchants of men were not exclusive to Canaan. There were men living in Northern India were called Asuras, who were identified as the mercantile caste. They built a huge system of irrigation lakes and canals. These monuments of engineering were accomplished by a readily available and large well regulated labor force. This system both prospered and oppressed the people.

     As they controlled the utility of these civic projects they also controlled the people through their dependence on production. Those who mastered the product of their common effort often expand their personal wealth and power with an impoverishing effect on the general population. They became the ruling elite. Not only the circumstance of this economic system but also the mind set of the poor kept the people subservient. The elite ruling class exercised an ever increasing authority in that realm often with a corresponding rise of injustice.

     There was another group of people in that arena who opposed this domination. This race of independent minded people often stood and occasionally warred against the tyranny and control these traffickers of the human sweat and blood. In their desire for individual autonomy and love of liberty they became a thorn in the side of the merchants of men.

     The Hindu Connection

     Amongst these men lived a wise and influential man by the name of Brahma. He married his sister named Sarai-Svati, Princes of the Temple or Tower. He later married an Egyptian Princes as a concubine or second wife named Ghaggar. He also wrote one of the revealed books of sacred Hindu scripture, The Atharva Veda. He was a social reformer with great compassion and a genuine care and concern for liberty and the people and a belief in obedience to the creator of life. If you have not deduced by now Brahma is Abraham of the Old Testament along with Sarai his half sister and Hagar his Egyptian concubine.

     His two sons' names, Isaac and Ishmael, are derived from Sanskrit: Of the Hebrew Ishaak we find the Sanskrit equivalent to be Ishakhumeaning "Friend of Shiva." The Hebrew word for Ishmael has its Sanskrit equivalent spelled as Ish-Mahalmeaning "Great Shiva".

     The four sacred Hindu books are Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and Brahmanas Granth. The Brahmanas Granth is a commentary on the Vedas, but it is considered as a revealed book. It is divided into four books including Atharva Veda.

     The Atharva Veda, one of those revealed books of the Hindu religion is also known as 'Brahma Veda' or in its defined meaning it is known as the Devine Knowledge. It is a reforming commentary on the sacred Vedas of the Hindus. Brahma, its author is actually Abrahm or Abram, where the letter 'a' is moved to the beginning producing Abram.

     According to many historians these Aryan people suddenly picked up and abandoned over twenty thousand villages and moved. Many of them traveled toward the west where they resettled the ancient city of Ur. They left in there wake a destroyed agricultural empire that was wrecked by a series of floods and devastating earthquakes.

     There were two floods in biblical accounting. The first took place long before Abram and Terah were born and is known as the Great Flood or Noah's flood. The other one took place generations later when Abram was a young man and people served other gods.

     Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

     The classical geographer Strabo tells us just how nearly complete the abandonment of Northwestern India was. "Aristobolus says that when he was sent upon a certain mission in India, he saw a country of more than a thousand cities, together with villages, that had been deserted because the Indus had abandoned its proper bed."¹

     Indian historian Kuttikhat Purushothama Chon believes that Abraham was driven out of India. He refers to the Aryans as being in constant competition and even having warred with the Asuras (The mercantile caste that once ruled in the Indus Valley) The Aryans marched to West Asia after the destruction of the Asuras huge system of irrigation lakes, causing destructive flooding.

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