Did you know that some Native American tribes have origin myths that claim they originally came from somewhere near Sirius?

I would have to dig out the book again, but it was written by a Native American with a PhD who had researched cultural similarities amongst North American tribes. He also noted linguistic similarities between not only distant tribes but also with some old (not modern) European languages.

Anyway, according to the myth, these tribes came from the heavens, but they also quite clearly name the location of Sirius in the night sky.

Yet other tribes claim to have come from beneath the earth, which is of note given the cave dwelling tribes which mysteriously disappeared before the arrival of Europeans.

The vast majority of indigenous tribes do not have any migration myths that might even remotely correspond to the accepted belief of a land bridge to Asia.

I have long wanted to read a translations of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana because these two texts seem to hold clues about ancient civilizations dating back to Sumeria (4th millenia BC).

The Mahabharata "gives a description of the various continents of the Earth, the other planets, and focuses on the Indian Subcontinent and gives an elaborate list of hundreds of kingdoms, tribes, provinces, cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, forests, etc. of the (ancient) Indian Subcontinent (Bhārata Varsha)." It also gives a detailed description, day by day, of a cataclysmic war which heavily impacted the entire Indian subcontinent.

Ramayana provides a glimpse at the culture, a window into ancient Hindu thought. Its stories provide a context for better understanding the Mahabharata. Whenever dealing with myths and legends, a cultural context is essential to understanding the thought processes of ancient peoples. Without that, we cannot find the historical truth hidden within the stories.

I have read of descriptions within the Mahabharata, but I found the sources (such as David Hatcher Childress) to be somewhat biased. Still, it piqued my curiosity enough to want to read the text myself so I could draw my own conclusions. If, based on my own historical knowledge, what I read provides enough clues to hint that ancient Hindus had at least some accurate knowledge of planets and continents prior to 1000 BC, this would raise a red flag that they possessed unusual knowledge for the time period. Then the question becomes, "how did they acquire such knowledge?" Alien theorists have already tackled this same topic, but I am hesitant to accept their interpretations without reading the Mahabharata for myself.