Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01162)

Hi

There is an interesting tradition in India that *everyone* there consider
themselves as descendants of one of the Seven Great Raja (Kingly) Rishis. In
most of the Hindu rituals, you identify yourself. In identification, apart
from your name, you also trace the specific geneology upto the third
ancestor and then add on the name of the Rishi at the top of the ancestry.
So each can claim Royal Princely ancestry. If this is true of the people of
India, then everyone in *every* part of the world is a descendant of a King
and hence is of Princely ancestry. No matter what you are - young, old, man,
woman, short, tall, thin, obese, white, yellow, black, brown, green etc each
can feel Princely -- even though in most of the parts of the world now all
the Kings have been deposed.

So let us all feel good about ourselves.

        ...doss