A Brief Summary of Covenant with God

Abraham is born in the Chaldean City of Ur, Mesopotamia, to Terah, his father. He married his half sister Sarai/Sarah. Along with his brother Haran’s son Lot an his followers, Abraham, his wife and his followers set for the land of Canaan. God called abraham to go to “the land I will show you” and promises to bless him. Driven by famine, he sets of for egypt to take refuge in their. Given his wife’s beauty, he is afraid that he might be waylaid for her sake. So he passes her of as his sister and introduces her as such to the Pharoah of Egypt. That does not save her from being appropriated by the pahroah. Yahweh intervenes and warns pharoah as a result of which sarai is left free. After that Abraham and sarai leave egypt and return to Ai.

There trouble breaks between his herdsmen and those of his nephew Lot. Abraham and lot then split away. Lot is given the first choice of destination. He prefers the fertile land lying east of the Jordan River, while Abram moves to the oaks of Mamre in Hebron. After a few years, Lot and his herdsmen are taken prisoners by Chedorlaomer who was warring against the kings of Sodom and the neighboring places. Abraham then goes with his followers in toe and conquers Chedorlaomer and then sets his nephew free. However ultimately after some years, the enormous sins of the the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah forces God to destroy them. Only Lot and his two daughters survive from the disaster.

God then blesses Abraham and promises that his seed would be innumerable. However Sarai continues to be infertile. Sarai then gives her egyptian handmaid Hagar to Abraham as his wife who then conceives Ishmael. However Sarai in unable to bear the sight of Hagar with child as it reminded her of her own barrenness. She deals harshly with hagar and forces to her to flee. God hears Hagar’s sorrow and promises her that her descendants would be too numerous to count.

God makes covenant with Abraham, thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael when Abraham is 99 years old. In Return for sole recognition of YHWH as supreme universal deity and authority, Abraham will be blessed with innumerable progeny.

God renews his promise of a son to Abraham(Though Ishmael is born to Abraham, only his son through Sarah would be his true heir). This makes Sarah laugh as she is already too old to conceive. However true to the promise of God, Issac is born to them. After the birth of Issac, God commands Abraham to take Issac to the land of Mount Moriah and sacrifice him there. After three days of travel to Mount Moriah, Abraham and issac reach there. They then go to the top of the mount. As commanded by God, Abraham prepares to sacrifice Issac there and issac obeys his father without a word in a whatever he does without asking any questions. At the last minute he is prevented by an angel from doing so. God becomes pleased with Abraham and promises to multiply his seed to an innumerable extent with abundant prosperity.

Sarah dies at the age of 127.

Abraham later sends his steward eliezer to Mesopotomia to get a bride for Issac and he returns with Rebecca (her character expand). Abraham lived long after these events. He was 137 when sarai died. And at that age, while in bad health, he takes another wife, a concubine by name Keturah. Through her he fathers six children by names Zimran, Zokshan, Medan, Nidian, Ishbak, Shuah. He finally died at the age of 175 years. As per some legends, he was meant to live upto 180 years but God purposefull had taken him away so that he need to see the wicked acts of his grandson Easu.

After 20 years of marriage of Issac and Rebecca, when Issac is 60, Easu and Jacob are born to them. They were twins. Both were fighting together inside the womb. (God’s comment). Easu was the first one to come out of his mother’s womb and Jacob came out next grasping Easu’s heel. It was as if Jacob was holding Easu back from being first born so that he could claim the abrahamic glory for himself. Easu being firstborn had the first right to abrahamic legacy. Esau was an able bodied ruddy hunter while Jacob is reserved person who “Dwelled in tents”. This is intended to point to the studiousness of Jacob and to his wisdom.

One day Esau returns from the field, faint in hunger. Siezing the opportuniry, Jacob sells him some lentil soup in exchange for Easu’s birth right as the elder brother. Esau gives up his birth right for some lentil soup because without the soup he was anyway going to die, he was feeling so bad from hunger and exhaustion. As per legends, Esau had committed all three cardinal sins, Murder, adultery and Idolatry which is why he was so tired that day.

When Issac is aged and blind, he decides to bless his eldest son Easu before he died. (This blessing is interpreted as prophetic blessing meaning, the one who is blessed by issac becomes the patriarch of Abrahaic legacy). He calls Easu, asks him to hunt down some meat and prepare him a meal so that he could bless him. Accordingly, Easu goes out to hunt. Rebeccah overhears this exchange and immediately summons her younger son Jacob who is her favorite and asks him to fetch her two goats so that she could prepare a tasty meal for his father. Easu is hariy skinned while Jacob is not. So after preparing the meal, rebeccah places hairy goatskins over his arms and neck and sends him inside along with the meal. Issac gets suspicious on how quickly his son had returned. He asks him as to who he is? Jacob replies that he is Esau. Issac feels for his sons arms and neck and gets convinced to some extent. Though the voice looks like that of Jacob, the arms are that of Esau. He anyway completes the meal and blesses his son. After a while Esau returns and finds himself cheated and vows to take revenge on Jacob. Rebeccah learns of his murderous intentions and sends Jacob to far away place to the house of her brother Laban. There Jacob marries Laban’s two daughters Leah an Rachel. After the rage of Esau is subsided, he comes back to his father’s place after a few years. On his way back, god appears as an angel and blesses him with the name of Israel. He has twelve children who becomes the fathers of twelve tribes of Israel. Through them, Jacob is the father and patriarch of all Israelites.

Krishna is Yahweh/Allah; God is One

The following article shows that it is Krishna of India is the God of all Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Jews are none other than Yadavas who migrated from India after the great drought of 2200 BC which led to the drying up of Saraswati river. This drought is now universally recognized by a number of historians. The entire Indian civilization was in the complete grip of Krishna’s worship for about a millennium after Krishna’s time about 3000 BC. Severe famine of three centuries caused displacement of these people who then went out of India. But they continued their worship of Krishna under modified names of Yahweh, Christ and Allah.

It has already been long pointed out by several historians that Abraham of Jews and Brahma of Hindus are too close by name to miss. Additionally Sarai is too close to Hindu goddess saraswati, the wife of Brahma, and the connection cannot be missed. As per Hindu legends, Saraswati is the daughter of Brahma because he has created her. And together with her, he fathers the people of this world and creates all living beings. So Brahma’s relationship with Saraswati is an incestual relationship. And the same is the case with Abraham and Sarai of the Abrahamic world. Sarai is the half-sister of Abraham. In that sense, his relation with her is an incest. And as in Hindu legends, Abraham along with Sarai fathers a large number of nations across the world.

This relation between Brahma and Abraham, sarai and saraswati has already been recognized by several historians. And mount moriah itself is pointed out to be Mount meru of the Hindus. We cannot miss the similarities. Despite such close connections being shown, the similarity of two or three names does not seem to break much ice; one problem with these similarities is the causative factor. It can be argued both ways – that Jews have copied from Hindus or that Hindus have copied from Jews. And as long as the argument stays at this deadlock, it does not progress much in capturing public as well as scholarly imagination. So let me show that there is more resemblance than just two names here.

Abraham’s son Issac is none other Iswar aka Siva of the Hindus! the similarity of names and the concept cannot be missed. In Hindu legends, Iswar is the son of Brahma, he is even called Brahmaputra meaning son of Brahma. And in Jewish legends, Issac is the son of Abraham.


Rebeccah, the wife of Issac is none other than Ambica, the wife of Siva of the Hindus. Ambika/Rebecca – the names are quite similar. Rebeccah of Jews is portrayed as a pleasing and benign woman. And just like in Jewish legend, the ambika of Hindus is actually a benign and pleasing goddess, it is durga who is of the ferocious form.

The most revealing connection is that of Hagar, the handmaiden of Sarai. This is nothing but the tributary of river saraswati, the river by name Ghaggar in India!. Ghaggar/Hagar - the resemblance is overwhelming. And the relations they have with sarai/saraswati are quite revealing in themselves. Ghaggar is a tributary to river saraswati and this relation of being tributary is being described as that of handmaiden. Saraswati is the mighty river and Ghaggar is small tributary to it. Similarly Sarai is the real mistress holding all the powers while Hagar is just handmaiden under her.

And what does the son Ishmael of Hagar signify? Ishmael is just a morphed form of Ishalay (Isha + Alay) meaning temple of Ishwar or Siva. Why would a temple of Siva be made the son of Hagar the tributary of saraswati?

This entire covenant of Abraham is nothing but an agreement amongst Yadavas that henceforth, they are not going to worship any god other than Krishna/Yahweh. So having made such an agreement, it was necessary to show that they have discarded other gods of Hinduism. Which all gods did they discard? They listed down the entire Hindu pantheon as the descendants of Abraham! They are just symbolically representing the gods rejected as Abraham and his descendants. These gods named under Abraham are henceforth to be considered as humans and not as divine. And then they have woven all of their experiences in India, after Krishna’s time, into these legends, with Abraham and others as central characters. So the experiences of Abraham and his descendants are nothing but symbolic allegories of all the difficulties faced by Yadavas during their time of stay in India.

So the gods who are rejected by Yadavas are listed under the covenant as different characters. Who all have they rejected? They have rejected Brahma (Abraham). They have rejected Saraswati (sarai), they are no longer going to consider her as a goddess, if anything, she would be shown as a human woman who would be dependent on the grace of Yahweh/Krishna as much as the Yadavas are. They have rejected Siva (Issac). They are no longer going to worship him. They have rejected Amibka, Siva’s wife (Rebecca), she would henceforth be considered as human. Siva is an important god of the Hindu pantheon, his worship was strong in the Gujarat region. So it is likely that some Yadavas were reluctant to completely give up the worship of Siva. It might not be that they wanted to worship Siva alone but they probably wanted to continue worshipping the Hindu religious trinity of Brahma/Vishnu/Siva and the Vedic Gods they probably did not want to completely discard the worship of everyone, especially Siva. Such Yadavas have been left in India on the banks of Hagar river.

Yadavas were traveling from Gujarat region along the banks of saraswati region towards Kashmir in search of water. As the famine drew stronger, it was necessary to find water and people just about migrated to any place where they thought that they could find water. Right from the next day of Krishna’s death, they are likely to have had an agreement that they are no longer going to worship anyone other than Krishna. On their way to Kashmir, it looks like they had a disagreement in this regard. Obviously the strongest of faiths can wither at the onslaughts of such dramatic famines of hundreds of years. And some Yadavas are likely to have lost faith in this new religion of theirs. They wanted to go back to the old Vedic religion where they worshipped all Vedic gods including Siva and mother goddesses. A disagreement arose and such Yadavas who wanted to go back to the pre-Krishna religion were discarded. This separation probably took place on the banks of river Ghaggar probably near some Siva temple. So they have recorded it in their scriptures in the form of Hagar and Ishmael. Jews did not take these people along with them to Kashmir and later to Israel.

And then after they broke away from this faction, the Yadavas then had a serious discussion amongst themselves about their religion. Once again they took oaths amongst themselves that henceforth they are not going to worship anyone else other than Krishna. In order to prove that they abide by this agreement, it is likely that various measures were taken by the Yadavas. For example any idols of Siva or other gods had to be thrown away, such other idols should not be kept with anyone. From then on, no one would even utter the name of Siva and other gods. This has been symbolically represented in their scriptures when Isaac is taken to mount Moriah and is offered as sacrifice to Yahweh. Mount Moriah is nothing but Mount meru of Vishnu/Krishna. Vishnu/Krishna is believed by vaishnavites to reside there. Abraham takes Isaac there and offers him as sacrifice before he is stopped in the last minute. This is symbolic representation of the fact that, in favor of Vishnu/Krishna, they would henceforth give up Issac/Iswar/Siva worship completely; his worship is given up as a sacrifice unto/in favor of Krishna. The sacrifice of Isaac on mount meru is an allegory that is representative of an agreement between the Yadavas, whereby any small remnant of Siva worship is thenceforth given up by them completely and they would henceforth have nothing more to do with his worship.

They have rejected Brahma, Saraswati, Siva and Ambika/Parvati. Who else did they reject? Obviously Siva’s sons Ganesha and Skanda have to be rejected. And they have been rejected. Issac’s sons Jacob and Esau are none other than Siva’s sons Ganesh and Skanda!

Ganesh is many a times called Jaiganesh in the north. In fact people are named as Jaiganesh and this particular habit of prefixing jai is a peculiar habit of this deity alone. For other deity names, they also append Sri along with Jai, for example JaiSriram. More over no one is named as Jaisriram. However I have seen people being named as Jaiganesh. Jai means ‘Hail’. They have done a lot of cutting the names right in the middle. For example, we can see that the long name of Saraswati is cut right in the middle and only Sarai portion of it is retained. Similarly in Ishwar, only Ish has been retained and a consonant has been suffixed to get Isaac. Similarly in Jaiganesh, only Jaiga has been retained and a consonant has been added to it as suffix to make it Jagob or Jacob. Similarly Siva’s other son is named as Swamy. Not many are aware of it that Siva’s second son is named as Swamy. I once read an article of a tamil scholar who claimed that the word Swamy originally belonged to Skanda. Later on it started being applied to all other gods. So for example tirupati Balaji is called Venkateswara swami. After pointing out all of this, the scholar claimed that, this is indicative of the fact that Venkateswara Swamy and Skanda are one and the same and likewise all forms of worship are different manifestations of the same god, he argued. Esau is none other than Swami (again cut in half like other names), Siva’s second son. In south India, Ganesha is considered elder to swami. However in north India he is considered to be younger, Swami is considered as elder.

The resemblance between the characters is quite striking. In Hindu legends, Swami is a warrior god, he is fit and agile and served as the commander general of the armies of gods. This fits in with the description of Easu who is said to be an agile and able hunter. Obviously Jewish forefathers could not write that Esau is the chief of armies of gods because they want to consider Easu as human in their legends. The legend needed to be suitably modified to fit in the new realm. Similarly in Hindu legends Ganesha is a rotund personality who is no where near as agile or as able as his brother. However he is said to be high in intellect. This is quite similar to the description of Jacob. Jacob is not so able but is considered to be an intellect.

There are several legends that show that Ganesha and Swami/Skanda fought with each other for various things. Ganesha’s original name as Vignesa (lord of obstacles) and not Ganesha (lord of ganas). How did he get this name, the legend runs as follows:

Once Siva and Parvati decided to make one of their sons as the chief or lord of the ganas (warriors or attendants who accompany Siva and live along with him on kailas) of Kailas. Considered to be an extremely important post, both the brothers fight for the post. In order to break the deadlock, it is declared that whoever goes around the world and comes back first would be made the lord of the ganas. Skanda immediately starts on his peacock and goes around the world at a fast pace and comes back in seven days. To his surprise however, his brother Ganesha is happily seated munching sweets on mount kailas, and is declared as the winner of the contest and is given the title of Ganapati/ganesha or the lord of the ganas. How did he get the title? Simple. As per scriptures, circulambulating around one’s parents seven times is considered equal to circulambulating the world. So after Skanda went away, Ganesha promptly bowed down to his parents and then ambulated around them seven times. That was it, he won the contest! Skanda feels cheated by this development and he in fact goes away from Kailas to far away place in the south.

This legend has other variations. For example, in another variation, they were fighting for the two grand daughters of Brahma. Whoever wins the contest gets both their hands in marriage. In another variation, something else. But all these legends carry the same framework. There is something to be gained for which Skanda leaves home and goes out. In his absence the less able Ganesha wins the booty through guile/wisdom. And needless to say that this is the same framework that was adopted for the fight of Jacob and Esau in the Jewish bible. Abrahamic legacy is the booty to win to attain which, the more able Esau goes out. In his absence, Jacob wins the booty through guile/wisdom. On his comeback, Esau feels extremely cheated. In both cases it is about the title and legacy. Ganesha in Hindu legends becomes the lord of ganas whereas Jacob in Jewish legends gets the title of Israel and is bestowed with abrahamic legacy. The legends of the Jewish bible have been appropriately modified to fit them with human beings. The legends of Hindus are obviously pertaining to godly figures. So they need to be suitably modified so as to fit them and show them as legends about mortals. Some modifications are done here and there to fit the legend of godly figures into the legends of mortals. For example, to justify the attainment of title by Jacob, they have shown Esau as a bad figure, otherwise it would be difficult to justify the guile with which Jacob had acted.

They have rejected Brahma, Saraswati,Siva, Ambika, Ganesh, Skanda. Who else? Well the Vedic gods. Even they need to be rejected and discarded. Obviously they would have taken a decision to discard all Vedic gods as well? And the answer to that is yes. They have rejected the Vedic gods as well!

At the ripe old age of 137 years, Abraham is said to have married another woman, termed as concubine, named Ketura. And he is said to have fathered six sons through her. And the names of these six sons along with their meanings are as follows :

Zimran – Celebrated, Vine Dresser
Zokshan – Hardnes, knocking

Medan – contention, conflict

Midian – Strife, Judgement

Ishbak – Leaving

Shuah – Ditch, Humiliation


Let us start with Ketura. Ketura is none other than Hindu goddess Gayatri, considered to be the mother of Vedas. And she is considered to be the second wife of Brahma! And the most important Gayatri mantra of the Hindus belongs to her, it is in her name. In terms of importance as a wife of Brahma, she is only second to Saraswati. And this nicely tallies with Ketura, Abraham’s second wife.

And Gayatri being considered as the mother of Vedas, the Vedic gods have been represented as her sons in the Jewish legends. The six sons of Abraham through Ketura are none other than the Vedic gods of India.

Showing the connection between the six sons and the Vedic gods requires some Linguistic analysis; it would not be possible to show the analysis here. Just to capture the results of the analysis, Zimran is Devendra, Zokshan is Daksha, Medan is Marut, Midian is Mithra, Ishbak is Aswins and Shuah is Rudra. One important thing to notice is that they have not listed Pancha Bhutas or the five elements and Sun and Moon in this list of six sons; probably because they considered these to be the manifestations of Krishna on earth.

All six sons of Ketura are Vedic gods! Since she is the mother of Vedas, they have been listed as her sons. It is said that Abraham sent them to the east, far away from his son Issac. This symbolically represents the fact that they had left the worship of these Vedic gods in the east, in India. The Jews no longer wanted to have anything to do with these Vedic gods.

To put it succinctly, the entire covenant with God of Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity and Islam is nothing but an agreement amongst Yadavas to worship only Krishna/Yahweh and to reject all other Hindu gods in favor of Krishna. The evidence here is overwhelming. So given that Vaishnavite Jews/Yadavas who had forsaken Vedic religion were considered to have been in central Asia by 1800 BC itself after migrating from India, does it make sense to say that some Aryans invaded India in 1500 BC and formed Vedas and epics after that date in India? Indian civilization is extremely ancient and is the fountainhead of the world civilization.

And the God of all religions is one and the same not just philosophically but also historically and physically as well.


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