Hinduism branched into its offshoots of Jainism and then @ 500 BCE also Buddhism. Simultaneously with Hinduism’s (or at the very least the Indic peoples) spread westward toward the Middle East and into Mesopotamia, the Indic peoples, their culture and religion(s) were also spreading into the rest of South Eastern Asia and as far north as the modern day Koreas and Japan. An Indic influence was also felt on many of the Pacific Islands and perhaps even Mesoamerica.

Sumer and Egypt are now both believed, by many serious scholars, to have originally been Indian colonies in ancient times.

Zoroastrianism or the “Parsi” Faith seems also to be a later extension or version/variation of Hinduism. Some sources claim that Abraham was another name for Ibrahim Zeradust (Zoroaster). This is also where the Hebrews (and later the Christian’s and Muslim’s) got the One God concept, the Devil and also the Arch-Angels.

The “Religion” of Melchizedek shall probably remain a hot topic of debate, but it seems from what biblical clues are given surrounding the story of Abraham’s “Blessing” by him that he too was more than likely a Hindu, and possibly, so some speculate even Krishna and still others have concluded that he was the Pharaoh Akhenaton, the Pharoah who declared “Aten-Ra” or the “One God Concept”. 

The Hebrews are the descendants of Abraham who we believe was a Hindu or a Sumerian of a priestly caste and possibly “a Brahman”. The Hebrews were obviously influenced by their close Egyptian ties through Joseph and Moses. Moses was more familiar with the Egyptian Gods than his own and some serious scholastic work is going into the theory that he was once the Pharaoh Akhenaton (another possible candidate). Moses also became the son-in-law of a priest - Jethro of Midian. The Midianite’s incidentally also claim descent through Abraham. The bible also tells us that the Israelites did not know the name of their own “God” and so it follows that they had little or no idea of their ancestral heritage.  All this had to be taught to them by Moses, who was taught by Jethro. The Ancient Hebrews had a Godly pantheon very similar to that of the Egyptians and many other Middle Eastern societies as well as the Hindus. Then yet again, the Hebrews mixed in another version of Hinduism from the Persians and Zoroastrianism during their Babylonian captivity from 597 to 538 BCE. We contend that it was only after this that the “Judaic” peoples declared their monotheism.   

Christianity, as most know and whether one likes it or not, is an offshoot religion primarily of Hebraic descent with a heavy admixture of Greek Hellenism. Many serious scholars have come to the conclusion that Jesus was not of Nazareth (as that town did not exist in his time), but that he was a “Nazarene” which is thought to be an offshoot of Buddhism. Additionally the stories of Jesus’ birth and youth may as well have been read from the stories of the Hindu God Krishna, a figure who like Jesus was both at once “fully human and fully divine.” It needs to be pointed out here that in large part Christianity was in many ways like it’s Hebrew parent and Hindu great grandparents. Christianity under Constantine’s rule absorbed other influences from many other sources most of which can be traced through their Greek and Roman origins back to Hinduism i.e., The Hindu “Dyaus Pitar” later became first “Zeus” for the Greeks, then “Jupiter” for the Romans. These Greek and Roman influences are also obvious in Christianity especially those similarities between Jesus and Mithras (or Mithra).