Origin of Aztec and about ancient Latin America in the context of Vedas.
(In this article, Sanskrit words in italics are itrans version of the same words in Devanagari.)
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I was reading a blog on Mexico in ‘Sawrupa’s world’, titled ‘Similarities between the Hindu & the Maya Culture’ <https://thegr8wall.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/similarities-between-the-hindu-the-maya-culture/comment-page-1/>) and this has prompted me to present something on America and the ancient Hindus.
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Trails from Mahabharata
I wish to share with you what I learnt from my Guru
on the migration of the ancient Indians to America
and my further understanding of the ancient
connections. He gave me some vital clues from his clairvoyance when he was mentioning about the works of Mr. Chaman Lal on the connection between India and South/Central America (https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/forum/f22n03p116_early-america-and-hindu-culture.htm).
My Guru, from his clairvoyance, mentioned that “after the war of Mahabharta, Janamejaya
(janamejaya) performed sarpa yaj~na (oblation of the snakes to the holy fire) to avenge the death of his father, king Parikshit (parIkShita). After the event of sarpa yaj~na, the clans belonging to the great architect Maya Danaba (maya daanava ) and also the followers and clans of the great sage Astika (aastIka) migrated to Mexico, Central and South America leading to the foundation of Mayan and Aztec civilization“.
This explains the highly developed knowledge of Mayans on the architectural, mathematical, navigational, astronomical systems as well as having a highly developed writing system inherited from the legacy of Maya Danaba and his clan.
His words also led me to understand the role of snakes in Aztec religion and culture.
Astika (aastIka) was the sage who saved Takshak (takShaka) the king of the snakes from falling into the holy fire as an oblation, by using his divine power. Astika (aastIka) was the son of the goddess Manasa (manasaa). Manasa is the goddess of the snakes. (I sometimes think whether the name ‘Texas’ has any bearing with takShaka! However, in the Internet, I find Texas is from the Sanskrit name tejasa meaning ‘glare or splendour’.)
Aztec people settled in the valley of Mexico and built their capital and the largest city in an island situated in a lake named Texcoco which also sounds similar to the word takShaka.
Also, I learnt from my Guru origins of four more names of Latin American countries as mentioned below. (Please note that the words in italics are itrans versions of Sanskrit in Devanagari):
(i)Honduras——hindu raShtra—the land of Hindus.
(ii)Guatemela——- gautama aalaya——the home of a sage named Gautama.
(iii)Bolivia——-bali abhaya—-bali or sacrifice that happens without fear.
(It is said in the Vedas that in the sacrificial rites performed by the deities, the animals voluntarily offered themselves as the oblations to become the creatures of higher evolution after the sacrifice.)
Hymns in Hindu rituals for performing animal sacrifice mention that in sacrifice (ya~jna) the slaughter does not to lead to death. The animals and the animal instincts are said to be elevated to the divinity.)
(iv) Uruguay——-urugaaya.
Sanskrit word urugaaya means ‘making large strides’. In Rik veda this word has been used as an adjective to lord viShNu (who is all pervading praaNa / active Universal Consciousness. urugaaya viShNu means viShNu who makes large strides.
viShnU is known to make three strides to cover bhUmi, antarIkSha and dyu, the three fundamental planes. Everything is set in motion and periodical cycles by His three strides.
Name of a few other countries
I have noticed that corresponding to the country name Peru there is a Sanskrit word ‘peru’ which has many meanings like, ‘sun’, ‘ocean’, ‘fire’ etc. One of the meanings (which has been applied in RiK veda) is ‘carrying across’. In this context, please note that the word ‘paara’ means ‘bank’.
The name of the country ‘Paraguay’ may also be related to the word ‘paara’. The part ‘gaaya’ of the Sanskrit word ‘urugaaya’ mentioned above, means ‘to sing’. It is mentioned in Vedas (Upanishads) that by signing or by ‘udgaana’ , mukhya (principal) praaNa (active Universal Consciousness ) took the deities beyond the death. Thus the name of the countries ‘Peru’ and ‘Paraguay’ may be from an original word that means to ‘carry across from the bank of mortality to eternity’. A Vedic hymn prays to the god yatavedas to carry everyone beyond the difficulties of the world like a navigator who sails across the sea.
From the Internet, I understand that the word ‘guay’ in Paraguay and Uruguay means ‘to or from water’. So, as I have mentioned above, the names Peru and Paraguay may have the origins from the word/words which imply ‘carrying across the ocean/river to get rid of all the difficulties’.
The Latin American word ‘guay’ carries the sense of ‘strides of viShNu’ also. When one experiences that all are held in the strides of ‘viShNu’ (all spreading praaNa or Consciousness), one gets rid of ‘unconsciousness’ or ‘death’. It is for this reason, Hindus visit the shrine of ‘viShNu’ at the city Gaya (‘gayaa’ ) to offer sacrifice to their deceased relatives. On the bank of the river Phalgu (phalgu) there is an ancient temple of viShNu that bears a foot print of lord viShNu. The word gayaa means ga (to go or depart) + aaya (to arrive or to be reborn). So the ritual in Gaya is done with the intention to help the deceased to overcome the compulsory cycles of death and rebirth, the phenomena on which we have no control. It is notable to see the similarities between the Latin American word ‘guay’(belonging to the local language called ‘Guarani’) and the Sanskrit word ‘gayaa’.
‘guay’ means ‘to and from water’ or ‘to and from the divine water or ‘kaaraNa vaari’, the water from where all physicality is formed and water in which all physicality dissolves’. viShNu rests in this divine water.
Like Peru, Trinidad is also a Sanskrit word. Probably, Trinidad means tri / triNi (three) naada (the sound of rapture from the origin of the universe) or the three components ‘a’,‘u’ and ‘ma’ of ‘om’. (It could be also tri+ ninaada. ninaada also means naada or sound.)
The island name ‘Bermuda’ resembles the word ‘vara mudraa’ (meaning ‘gesture to bestow boons); however ‘Wikipedia’ says “Bermuda was believed to have been discovered by accident by Juan de Bermudez, Captain of La Garza, a Spanish vessel, part of a Spanish fleet sailing from Cadiz to Mexico”.
It is be noted that these islands Bermuda, Bahamas, Trinidad, Bimini etc. appear to be originally parts of the ‘lost Atlantis’. I came to know from my Guru, the demon king Namuchi / namuchi (brother of maya daanava) was the emperor of Atlantis (atalaanta). (namuchi means na—no + munchate [can not be effaced]—who cannot be effaced. (No wonder Atlantis is getting discovered!). It is mentioned that indra killed namuchi by severing his head by a column of foam rising from the sea.
The island name Bahama sounds similar to the Hindu god ‘Brahmaa’ and the island name ‘Bimini’ could be ‘braamhaNI’ or ‘vaamanI’. The two goddesses residing in our two eyes are named as ‘vaamanI’ and ‘bhaamanI’ in Chandogya Upanishad. Here is a quote from Internet (http://www.crystalinks.com/atlantislocations.html)on Atlantis and Bahamas:
“ Bahama Bank and Caribbean
Not all geologists deny the possibility of a sunken island in Central America. After the Charles Berlitz book The Mystery of Atlantis, a Canadian Hungarian geologist-topographer's book was published, entitled Atlantis: The Seven Seals. The author, Z.A. Simon, called the attention to these controversies. He included some supporting conclusions of Dr. J. Manson Valentine, M. Dmitri Ribikoff, E. Umland and C. Umland, Robert B. Stacy-Judd, Dr. David Zink, John P. Cohane, Peter Tompkins, Pino Turolla, Captain Alexander, Francis Hitching, James Bailey, Dr. C.J. Cazeau, Dr. S.D. Scott, Brad Steiger and William R. Fix.
The June 1981 edition of Marine Geology shows some radiocarbon dates on mangrove peat, based on the estimate of Broecker and Kulp, listing dates between 5590 and 3680 BC, with connection of the gradual sinking of the Florida-Bimini region. Most recently the rate of the sea level's rise has slowed to 4.5 in (114 mm) per century. Prior to that time it was one foot per century. Near Andros Island, underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau found a huge submerged cave 165 ft (50 m) beneath the surface.
There are stalactites and stalagmites in it, that can be formed in the open air only. Marine sediments on the walls of the grotto enabled scientists to estimate its submersion around or after 10,000 BC. The submarine topography of the Bahamian region shown in the huge Russian Atlas Mira by detailed isobaths, catches the attention of a topographer. The sea floor on the northern side of Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico indicates a definite system of submerged valleys of ancient rivers, combined with sunken mountain ranges. The "Tongue of the Ocean" at Andros Island is undoubtedly an underwater ravine caused by terrible tectonic forces, surrounded by almost vertical walls, as a "memento" of the catastrophe. The main problem with this theory is that Atlantis was supposed to have submerged rapidly, following an earthquake.
Z.A. Simon offers an "accurate" map of Plato's rectangular island with its given dimensions as 2,000 by 3,000 stadia, overlaying its outline on the suspected ancient irregular shoreline of that traditional island in the Bahamas region. (An Attic stadium corresponds to 177.6 m)”
Understanding of history and mythology
As per the Vedas, history (itihaasa) and mythology (puraaNa) are connected. puraaNa or mythologies complete or complement (pUraka) what have been told in the Vedas.
puraaNa (mythologies) have described the events and personalities along with the divine parts. Any event or any character in our reality is an extension of the divinity or the physical part of the divinity. The seers, thus, have described the divine and physical parts together in puraaNa. Physicality or physical world frames the unbound divinity in limits and boundaries of time and space. However, divinity itself is not limited and is unbound.
Inca gods
The Inca empire was in Peru and when it was largest, it included parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia.
The Inca god Viracocha and his son Inti remind me of the two characters virochana and indra who went to the lord prajaapati to know about the ‘universal eternal soul’ (Chandogya Upanishad 8th Chapter).
virochana was the king of the asura and taught the physicality or physical aspects of the Consciousness to them (to asura). So, asura stuck to the earth or physicality. These have been further mentioned in Chandogya Upanishad.
virochana means vi (dual/ different) + rochana (light / vision). Thus virochana is the personality of the Universal Consciousness that produces and nurtures ‘duality’ or ‘act of feeling everything different from the self or soul’. This is the root of physicality.
One of the names of the goddess durgaa is vairochanI (derived from the word vairochana) meaning who is creating duality or distance (dUra).
However, the goddess durgaa kills the duality. She kills the demon (asura) named mahiShaasura. mahiSha means fragmented mahimaa or personality. mahimaa or mahi means ‘greatness or speciality of a personality or the identity’; mahiSha means ‘identity separated or severed from the Universal Oneness’. Thus the goddess destroys our limited identities to take us into the ‘eternal oneness’.
But,in her another aspect she (vairochanI) is creating the distance (dUra / expanding universe) or duality.
(The Sanskrit word vairi means ‘enemy’.)
Both indra, the king of heaven and virochana, the king of demons or asura went at the same time to the lord prajaapati to know the ‘universal eternal soul’.
virochana left after the first lesson and taught ‘physicality’ to his descendants and followers. indra was not satisfied with the initial lessons and returned twice to prajaapati to know further and finally learnt that the universal soul is eternal and beyond the physicality, and also the universal soul becomes the physicality but still remains non physical, unbound and eternal.
The word indra means the divine or the universal observer——indra —idam (it/everything) + draShTRi (observer). It also means who is the observer within the physicality or within the earth. In Sanskrit, ‘idam’ or ‘it’ also means ‘earth or the body’.
The sun is also the source of ‘vision’. In the unbound consciousness, vision is created from the observer, view is created from the observer’s vision.(We need to understand that the divinity is ‘interlaced’.)
indra in Upanishad is also termed as ‘indha’, i.e. who is ignited, burning, shining, lighting etc. The god ‘Inti’, the sun god of Incas, may have a root in ‘indra’; it is notable that indra and virochana are the two characters described together in Upanishad and also ‘Inti’ and ‘Viracocha’ are the two main gods of the Incas.
indra in Upanishad is also termed as ‘indha’, i.e. who is ignited, burning, shining, lighting etc. The god ‘Inti’, the sun god of Incas, may have a root in ‘indra’; it is notable that indra and virochana are the two characters described together in Upanishad and also ‘Inti’ and ‘Viracocha’ are the two main gods of the Incas.
Like prajaapti, Viracocha also did the creation. As the dinosaurs and other grotesque creatures created in the early era were finally wiped out and civilized versions evolved, so also were the deeds of Viracocha. Unsatisfied by his first lot of creation which were brainless giants, Viracocha wiped them out by a flood and then created better ones ‘from smaller stones’
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viracocha).
(The Creator seemed to have exhibited the learning curve, exhibiting the feats of a novice maturing into those of an expert.)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viracocha).
(The Creator seemed to have exhibited the learning curve, exhibiting the feats of a novice maturing into those of an expert.)
I have mentioned before about ‘duality’ and ‘virochana’. It is interesting to note that ‘dualism’ played a prominent role in Inca’s culture or belief. Following is quoted from ‘Wikipedia’ (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacha_(Inca_mythology)>)
“Although the universe was considered a unified system within Incan cosmology, the division between the worlds was part of the dualism prominent in Incan beliefs, known as Yanantin. This dualism found that everything which existed had both features of any feature (both hot and cold, positive and negative, dark and light, etc.).”
Asitka /asteeka (Aztec) and the snakes
Mahabharata has described how Astika (asteeka) saved the Takshaka (takShaka) the divine king of the snakes and also the remaining snakes who otherwise would have been sacrificed in the holy fire. (It may be noted that takShaka and indra were friends. indra tried to protect takShaka from being dragged into the holy fire but was not successful and finally takShaka was saved by aastIka.
The snakes and serpents are represented by the word ‘sarpa’ in Sanskrit. It is from the root word ‘sRip’ meaning ‘to crawl’. ‘sRip’ actually means to move on the heart. The way snakes move is‘hRidaya gati’ or motion (gati) of the heart (hRidaya). Heart or hRidaya is the seat where the ‘senses of belonging or attachment work’. Our feelings, our attachments are in the heart. The earth in her divine aspect has held us by her heart and we call her dharitrI (the goddess who is holding every thing) or vasudhaa/ vasundharaa (the goddess who is holding all the vasu or the material world). This ‘holding’ makes our ‘existence’ or ‘astitva’. asti and astitva means ‘existent / to exist’ and ‘existence’ respectively and this divine knowledge was experienced by the sage ‘aastIka’. All these words asti, astitva and aastIka are from the root word ‘as’ meaning ‘is / to be, exist’. ‘aastIka’ knows how the Consciousness creates and regulates the sense of ‘existence’ and holds the physicality.
In addition to crawling, snake constricts its prey and holds it with great force. The features of the 'holding' by the Universal Consciousness as earth is represented in the animal kingdom in snakes.
In addition to crawling, snake constricts its prey and holds it with great force. The features of the 'holding' by the Universal Consciousness as earth is represented in the animal kingdom in snakes.
Snakes are also called ‘ahi’ which is related to the word ‘aha’ meaning ‘day’ and this word (aha) is synonymous with the word ‘aham’ meaning ‘I am’. ‘I am’ is the assertive manifestation ( day / aha) of the self, assertion of existence or ‘astitva’. This has been also mentioned in Upanishad. A similar word ‘aahaa’ is also an exclamation or a heartfelt expression. Any sense rising in me brings a ‘day’ with it. With the sense, ‘I’ get illuminated by the ‘feeling or assertion of the self’, which is ‘I am’, ‘aham’, ‘aha’ (day). In this way my ‘sense of existence’ or ‘astitva’ is maintained. Thus the alternate word ‘ahi’ for snake (sarpa) is also related to the ‘heart or hRidaya’.
The maternal uncle of aastIka and the brother of manasaa is vaasuki. vaasuki is a divine serpent and vaasukI is the female form. vaasukI is related to the group of gods called vasu who dominate over the material world. We are staying or dwelling on the earth by vaasukI and the gods called vasu. vasu are the gods who make us to dwell (vasa) and provides us with dress (vaasa) or ‘body’. Any substance, anything existing is called ‘vastu’. The goddess earth is called vasudhaa or vasundharaa as she thus holds us.
(In Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, when the great sage yaaj~navalkya was asked by shaakalya to answer ‘where heart is founded’, yaaj~navalkya replied by addressing shaakalya as ‘ahallika meaning ‘who lacks (lI/ lli) vision even in broad day (aha) light and further said that if hRidaya (seat of the sense of belonging or heart) would have been anywhere else other than the ‘body’, then this body would have been devoured by the ‘dogs and vultures’. In Upanishad, words for body and earth have been applied in the same ‘sense’.)
The feathered snake god of the Mayans was named ‘Kukulcan’ and this sounds similar to the Sanskrit word kulakuNDalinI. ’kuNDalinI’ means something that is ‘coiled/curled’ and also ‘snake’. kulakuNDalinI is the spirituality or spiritual power now dormant or sleeping in us like a coiled snake and a snake hibernating. Serpent power is the energy that remains compressed or curled. In this physicality the energy is in the dormant stage.
A few more Inca gods with traceable Vedic roots
I am able to see the connections with Vedic words for some more Inca gods as mentioned below:
(i) Mama Quilla-- Goddess of moon.
Mama—-Mother (maataa). Quilla—-kalaa—-phase of moon, a digit equivalent to 1/16th of moon’s diameter, division of time.
(ii) Illapa—-God of lightning, thunder and storm. Illapa is equivalent to the Vedic god indra who is the king of the heaven and dominates on lightning, thunder, storms, rains and river flows. indra is also called maghavan meaning ‘one who is in the clouds (megha)’. indra holds a ‘thunderbolt’ (vajra) as his weapon and the gods of wind named as marut are his friends.
The name Illapa seems to be derived from the Sanskrit words Il (to move) + ap/aapa (water, river)---the god who moves water / clouds to rain.
(iii) Hanan pacha——The upper sky or upper realm where exists the stars, constellations, milky ways, sun, planets and moon. Sanskrit word hanana means ‘killing’ and the sound ‘haM’ is the bIjamantra or the ‘mystical syllable’ that represents the space / void or the sky where all dimensions have been ‘killed’(hanana).
The word ‘pacha’ is used in Quechua language (language of Incas) to represent division or parts of the cosmos.
Thus ‘Hanan pacha’ means the upper world or sky, heaven, where dimensions are non existent. During teaching indra, prajaapati told him that “‘akaasha’ or the sky is ‘asharIra’ (without body or dimensions)….and the one who gets this wisdom, the one leaves the body and continues to exist in a supreme form of self-illumination”.
The Quechua word ‘pacha’ is pronounced as [pætʃæ] (for listening the pronunciation go to the website in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNMjvnRTS-Y). The word also means ‘time’. The cosmos can be divided in terms of ‘time’ in the
‘proper sense of time’. My understanding is that the word ‘pacha’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘pakSha’. pakSha conveys the sense of ‘time’ as well as the sense of ‘faction or division, wing’. Each half of a lunar month is also called ‘pakSha’. The word ‘pakSha’ has also a relation with the Sanskrit word ‘pacha’ and ‘pach’ which means ‘act of cooking’ and ‘to digest’ respectively. We are digested by the time and that means our evolution. In the same process we digest ‘foods’ or ‘whatever we sense’. In the physical space, the sun, moon, stars etc. are the most visible centers of this ‘control by the action of time which in turn is the action of Universal consciousness’. As we digest so we are transformed. Thus the universe is divided in different forms in time and space.
(iv) Pachamama or Mama Pacha——- Goddess of earth or Mother Earth.
I have already explained ‘Pacha’ as above. Mama or mother means who ‘materializes us’ or makes us ‘measurable’. This is because we get our dimensions in ‘mother’s womb’. Thus in Sanskrit, the word ‘maatraa’ (measure or degree), ‘maatrI’ (mother, one who measures across), ‘maataa’ are connected words and are from the same root. These words are also the roots of the English word ‘matter’ because all matters are the ‘measures’ of the Universal Consciousness. The place where we live with ‘defined and segregated forms is called the ‘earth’ or the physical world.
(v) Huaca / Waka——-Any sacred object is a Huaca or Wak’a. Incas believe that any object is created by two spirits, one creates and another animates. It is like the ‘creation’ and then introducing the ‘time’ or ‘animation’ or ‘making life flowing from beginning to the end’.
Anything and everything can be a ‘Huca/Wak’a’ or can be converted (or regarded) as ‘Huca/Wak’a’; it can be a place, it can be a tree or a mountain and so on. (For details you may read the contents in <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaca>, <https://jessicaincas.weebly.com/huaca.html>, <http://www.machupicchu-inca.com/inca-gods.html> .
It appears that this practice or culture (of regarding any thing sacred/making anything sacred) stems from the wisdom that everything is a ‘word’ or ‘expression of the Universal Consciousness or vaak’. Most likely, ‘Wak’a’ is from the Sanskrit word ‘vaak’.
In Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, sage yaj~navalkya has mentioned ‘yaH kaH cha shavdaH vaak eva saaH’—-whatever is the sound it is vaak. Everything we feel or sense is creating a sound within us and it is vaak or the expression of the Consciousness. The Universe is the expression or words (vaakya) of the Consciousness. This expressing Consciousness as the divine snake vaasuki and the deities named vasu is dominating on all substances.
Origin of the name Mexico: Following is an extract from Internet:
“Prehistoric Mexican astronomers began a tradition of precise observing, recording, and commemorating astronomical events that later become a hallmark of Mexican civilized achievements. Cities would be founded and built on astronomical principles, leaders would be appointed on celestial events, wars would be fought according to solar-calendars, and a complex theology using astronomical metaphors would organize the daily lives of millions of people.” (https://www.revolvy.com/page/Pre%252DColumbian-Mexico).
The ancient Mexicans used to call them as ‘me-shee ka’
Now, there is a Sanskrit word ‘meshikaa’ and whose equivalent Sanskrit word is ‘kaala-m’ or ‘kaala’ (time) as mentioned in the Sanskrit English Lexicon by Monier Williams. Following this, we can say, ‘me-shee-ka’ means those ‘who knows the mysteries of time or counting’. The word ‘kaala’ is from the root word ‘kal’. ‘kal’ is a verb and it means ‘to clock’, ‘to calculate’ etc.This explanation is with the consideration that ‘me-shee-ka’ and ‘meshikaa’ are the same. However, the lexicon by Monier Williams does not explain why the meaning of ‘meshikaa’ is same as that of ‘kala-m’. I have found a reason by myself and it is as below.
The word meSha means ‘ram’ and meShikaa means ‘ewe’. It appears that meShikaa and meshikaa are connected / same words (meShI > m/eshI; refer Monier Williams Sanskrit English Lexicon). Now the word nimeSha means a moment or an element of time; it also means a wink or a twinkle of an eye.
The sun who is regarded as the eye of our planetary system, controls both vision and motion/time. The day and night (called aho-raatro in Vedic parlance) are the rhythms or pulses or the ‘winks’. Similarly, the eyes or the seat of vision in us also control our time and sight. The rhythm like day-night in our biological system is called circadian rhythm. (Refer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18316227.) The sun has been described as the radiance of lord viShNu. In several hymns of the Vedas ‘the eye’ (vision) and ‘the foot’ (motion/time) of viShNu have been addressed.
Thus the eye is connected with time or ‘nimesha’ (moment, winking).
A sheep is called meSha due to its excellent peripheral vision and they depend heavily on vision. The word meSha is from the root word miSh which means ‘to open the eye’, ‘to wink’, ‘to blink’ etc. ( A sheep has an excellent peripheral field of vision {270 to 320 degree} which enables it to see what is behind itself without turning its head.) This gives some clue why the word ‘meshikaa’ can mean ‘experts in time, vision/observation and astronomy’. Thus the word ‘meshikaa’ does describe the skill and knowledge of the ancient Mexicans on the astronomy and calendar, mathematics, observations and recording and the seriousness of keeping their society tuned to the call of time or calculation results of astronomy.
It is interesting to note that the English word ‘mesh’ may be related to ‘meSha’ due the common practice of ‘knitting or meshing wools’. Incas were using knotted strings for record keeping and communication. Further, ‘meSha’ also stands for the first sign of the zodiac, i.e. the constellation Aries. Probably they proudly identified them with Aries!
References:
1. <http://www.apamnapat.com/articles/StoriesFromMahabharata510.html>
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