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That's your SECOND revert of referenced info. You're new, so now might be good time to read WP:BRD and take it to the talkpage. "Fringe" is YOUR assessment and you may be surprised to learn that wp has room for ideas you may consider fringe
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''[[Medus|Medos]]'' (Μηδος), and his mother [[Medea]], were also reckoned to be the ancestors of the Medes in classical Greek mythical history. Christian scholars have proposed linking Hebrew ''Madai'' and Greek ''Medos'' since at least the time of [[Isidore of Seville]] [''Etym'' 9.2.28], ca. 600 AD.
 
'''Madai''' is also the name of the deified ancestor of the [[Jingpo people|Kachin people]] of [[Myanmar]], according to the indigenous Kachin religion. This circumstance was seized upon by early Christian missionaries to the Kachin, and comparisons with the figure of Madai in Genesis have sometimes been drawn.<ref>James Henry Green et al., ''Burma: frontier photographs 1918-1935'' p. 188</ref><ref>François Robinne, ''Prêtres et chamanes: Métamorphoses des Kachin de Birmanie'', p. 229.</ref>
 
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