As a final point, I would like this opportunity to say that the Hindu mythology is considered to be more than five thousand years old. Yet, it still promotes social and practical sentiments like sharing, caring, forgiving, and loving. In ancient times, it was easy to distinguish between good and evil as Gods and demons represented it respectively. However, now, we have so many social injustices like drugs, prejudice, violence etc., to deal with. Let us hope to fight these underlying demons with the illumination of our inner lights.
Turkeys have quite a history in America.
Some say Christopher Columbus named the birds tuka, the Tamil word for peacock. Considering Columbus thought he was in India at the time of the alleged naming, not in the New World where he actually was, this definition seems fairly plausible. Another suggestion is that Luis de Torres, a physician who served under Columbus, named the bird tukki, which translates to big bird in Hebrew. Some say the North American Indians called the bird firkee. If so, it s a word everyone else has mispronounced the past 508 years.