Chinese nationalists claim that history really began with the Yellow Emperor and the Xia and Shang dynasties and that whatever Westerners, Muslims or Indians achieved is but a pale copy of original Chinese breakthroughs.

Pious Muslims believe that all the history prior to the Prophet Muhammad is largely irrelevant, and they consider all history after the revelation of the Quran to revolve around the Muslim ummah.

The Aztecs firmly believed that without the sacrifices they performed each year, the sun wouldn't rise and the entire universe would disintegrate.

All the basic postures of Yoga are derived from the shape of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.The Trikonasana posture imitates the shape of the Hebrew letter 'aleph' ,Tuladandasana imitates the letter 'daled',etc.