Skanda was a son of Shiva and grandson of Kush, all three of whom were at the Tower of Babel, so that Indo Europeans called the north Skandia (Scandinavia) seems to indicate that the name of the son of Shiva (for whom was named the Shiva lingam), though of Ham’s family, was adopted by the Europeans (progeny of Japheth) for a name of the north, true north actually, through which the World Tree or Axis Mundi extends, by that knowledge the rate of precession of the earth’s axis measured, 72 years/degree, the basis of the units of the Hindu Yugas of time.
