[Sherman Logan]

IOW, the Druze are inbred. What a shock.

[muawiyah]

Inbred but with a wide variety of founders ~ of note, they uniformly believe in reincarnation ~ closer to Hindu lines than to the Buddhist concept.

Their take on it is that when you die you "come back" as somebody else within the Druze community. They engage in a practice otherwise known only in India to any degree where upon attaining sufficient maturity the member is put into trances for examination to see who they used to be.

Their religion is syncretic. That is, it is built up out of combinations of other relgions. It is an error to describe it as a variety of Islam. Rather, Islam has contributed "parts" to the Druze belief system, as has Christianity, Mythrism, Judaism, traditional Indo-European beliefs, Zorastrianism, and so forth, all the way back into the Ice Age ~

Haplogroup X pretty well identifies the original core group ~

Blam, with X Factor folks in hand, given their historic practices, we may well have a chunk of the descendants of the original Sumerians with a probable connection to India, and maybe even Sundaland.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)