So Mark Singleton wrote a book called Yoga body which supposedly claims that many of the asanas or poses came from European primitive gymnastics and not from India
They were later given hindu names
There is nothing necessarily involving polytheistic worship to do a exercise from Europe that was renamed after a hindu god by a hindu
That being said some of the practices involving chanting the name of hindu gods would seem like polytheistic worship to me
There is something called Greco-Buddhism or Buddhism in Greece that traces back to before the mainstream narrative timeline for the birth of Jesus
there is or was an article about it on wikipedia
Zola Levitt if I remember correctly also claimed Budha statues, or figurines were found near ancient Israelite archeological sites. I think they were small enough you can hold them in your hands.
@shortstories @Chuckar Those claims sound false just on its face. Sounds like something they would say on a Reddit post