[djf]

Don’t the Hindus have like 12 arms?

Yup. They’re credible...

[Cronos]

No, that's actually some of the hindu gods and goddesses -- offhand I can think of depictions of Durga/Devi/Bhavani and Vishnu.

But I didn't post this for credibility or not -- I don't believe in the tenets of Hinduism but it is good to read about their beliefs instead of making silly statements.

[Cronos]

Also, it is interesting about the development of this cycle of cycles -- it is the reason why the Indian flag has the Chakra (wheel) in its center. And the entire "circle of life" philosophy is Hindu in origin -- not Chinese (which has more about opposing yin/yang)

Also, religion influences development in many ways -- which is why ancient Indians had highly developed mathematics (think Aryabhata) prior to the Moslem invasions -- to compute these billions of years

in contrast the ancient greeks believed that the base use of numbers was vulgar and preferred their studies into geometry (congruence etc. etc.)

the Mayans too had a concept of cycles, but I do not know their philosophy very well to comment

As part of the Judeo-Christian world we believe in more of a linear movement of time -- a forward thrust of history so to speak

Islam regressed from this in the 10th century as it rejected aspects of hellenizism and now has more of a concept of "no time" or rather "time at the whims and fancies of allah", hence there is no point in science at all according to this