i read on the wiki about a russian Nicolas Notovich in 1887f ound found a manuscript that says jesus ditched at 13 to go study in india. this was a very simplified rehash
you can imagine a reluctance to record or keep record of this part of history by certain religious organisations.
this explains the jesus halo in the early 2nd century CE
here is a post from reddit i screenshotted about this topic. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/Gr8inpkMq2
The first painted depictions of adult jesus were made in the 4th century.
This aligns with the establishment of Constantinople in 330AD by Constantine the great
in the 1st and 3rd centuries, jewish Aniconism (opposition to the use of icons or visual images to depict living creatures or religious figures) opposed any depictions of Jesus. this is a potential explanation for the absence of depictions leading up to the 4th Century Byzantine period. the earliest of these 4th century depictions feature a halo or crown around his head
I don’t know if the Jesus described in the Bible was a one actual person, but it became fairly obvious to me that he was a yogi (in his teachings)
I also recently discovered something perhaps even more interesting-er
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=3dde2fcdc36845ac&sca_upv=1&q=jesus+wand&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J_86uWOeqwdnV0yaSF-x2joQcoZ-0Q2Udkt2zEybT7Hdf5FBKg6QdtJ_mF8k5Wx_fK47VnnH0hqC26evHUklzukhRGDp8I9R6sObxD5rXV9iKTeMw0OsLcinUtCw7tu06Z-vfaM&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG2JChsIaHAxVh6AIHHWW5CdkQtKgLegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=919&dpr=1
(I have not verified this data)
(I’m betting @SorcerySupreme would like to see that)
I’ve heard about such hypothesis.
I have no idea whether to believe it or not.
I mean in one of the official verses (“official” = which was approved by the Early Christian Church; anyway, I personally don’t care what the church approved or if they ever approve of something) of the Bible, it says that Jesus did many things which were not written in this book or something like that and it mentions that he did LOTS (Tremendous number) of things which were not recorded.
We can say that it was possible that he visited or even stayed in India.
I mean, Egypt was a clear stop for him.
It’s not like he stayed only in Israel.
However, Egypt was close and governed by Rome too, plus there were Jewish communities there (I know that some Jews reached India too, but Idk when).
