The 'devil' in Asian myth is ... other humans have lived with us

Genetic studies of the United States, India and Singapore have uncovered the truth of the scary Rakshasas: another human being who once lived and married with our modern humans.

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), National Institute of Biomedical Biotechnology (NIBG, India) and University of California (USA) have traced the genomes of modern humans and the evidence. archeology uncovered the mystery of ancient communities in South Asia tens of thousands of years ago.

Scary Rakshasas are not demons as described by myths, they are an ancient human being - (Image: ACIENT-ORIGINS)

The most striking finding in the study, published in the journal Nature , is the true family of "bloodthirsty demons Rakshasas" in Indian mythology. These are vague memories of the Denisovans , an extinct ancient human species that once inhabited the modern Homo sapiens in Asia. For tens of thousands of years, these strange human stories have been preserved through oral tradition, rudimentary drawings on the cave walls, and then further painted with the scary Rakshasas imagination.

The group of Denisovans in this legend lives in the area of ​​present-day India and Pakistan, carrying European-Asian blood.

According to Partha P. Majumder, founder of NIBG, one of the lead authors of the study, the work helps us better understand the Asian genome.

Identifying the intersection of communities , especially those of other species, can shed light on many DNA variants associated with modern diseases, for example in communities with a "hybrid" rate. These Denisovans, they found the NEUROD1 variant to be associated with a form of diabetes.

Earlier, another study by this same group in the Southeast Asian community, it was found that a common anticonvulsant drug has side effects on more than 400 million people here if they accidentally inherited it. Several distinct DNA variants of a mysterious ancestor.

The Denisovans - (photo: Maayan Harel).

Denisovans are an ancient species that became extinct. In Asia, there are quite a number of Denisovans living in the area, the most famous of which are the Denisovans in South Asia and another group of Denisovans in southern Russia and Tibet today.

Scientists think the Denisovans became extinct 30,000-40,000 years ago. However, thanks to different marriages with Homo sapiens, the Denisovans bloodline still exists in many people. A study by the University of New York (USA) published in the middle of this year showed that up to 40% of Asians also carry a lower teeth with a strange leg - traces of Denisovans ancestors.