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Discussing the diffusion of Indian religions to Mexico, a recent scholar, Paul Kirchhoff (1900 - 1972) German anthropologist from the University of Frankfurt, in "The Diffusion of a Great Religious System from India to Mexico" had even suggested that it is not simply a question of miscellaneous influences wandering from one country to the other, but that China, India, Java, and Mexico actually share a common system."
Kirchhoff has sought
"to demonstrate that a calendaric classification of 28 Hindu gods and their animals into twelve groups, subdivided into four blocks, within each of which we find a sequence of gods and animals representing Creation, Destruction and Renovation, and which can be shown to have existed both in India and Java, must have been carried from the Old World to the New, since in Mexico we find calendaric lists of gods and animals that follow each other without interruption in the same order and with attributes and functions or meanings strikingly similar to those of the 12 Indian and Javanese groups of gods, showing the same four subdivisions."
(source: India and World Civilization - By D P Singhal part II p. 62 – 63).
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