Song of Hannah occupies a sacred place in Judaism; it is read on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. It is believed that Song of Hannah forms the base of Luke’s Magnifiact. Its historic base is more powerful when it links history of some other nations like Babylon with it to explore an expansive role for Prophet Samuel.
Samuel, Christ, and John the Baptist were sons to three ‘Mothers’, Hannah, Mary, and Elizabeth, respectively. ; behind the three names again are locked names of three ancient royal tribes: Hannah-Han tribe ; Mary- Moriya tribe; and Elizabeth-tribe of Luz.
Hebrew word ‘horn’ identifies God as a ‘Rock,” and speaks of God’s ‘deliverance’ (1 Samuel 2:1-2; 2 Samuel 22:2-3); and this refers to ‘water’ coming out of this ‘Rock’ in the region of Moriah. The story is linked to the peacock whose hitting the rock by its beak created springs. Hebrew horn clearly identifies Rock Aoronous or Aruna or Oromenus which was in the region of Canaan itself.
This same region is again called ‘the grave’ because of the existence of a volcano here; and it is ‘Sheol’ (1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Samuel 22:6) and the ‘thunder’ identifies the seat of worship of the Strom God Indra, the so called Heaven, or Canaan. (1 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 22:14)
The ‘king’ is identified with his kingdom at Basileion(1 and 2 Kgs), or ancient Baisali with place of ‘anointed’ (1 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 22:51) at Bethany.
The Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55), which echoes Hannah’s song is exactly the same as the place of worship of Magna Mater.
The Lord! His adversaries shall be shattered;
The Most High* will thunder in heaven.
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth;
he will give strength to his king,
and exalt the power of his anointed.’ (1 Samuel 2:1-10).
In this song ‘end of the earth’ locates the ancient ‘Rome’, or the birthplace of Rama, the incarnated God of the epic the Ramayana, on the west. In 1& 2 Kgs the translation of Basilieon into ‘King’ is wrong; it identifies the ‘Kingdom’, the seat of royal palace, not the ‘King’.
Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phineas identify two place-names as well as names of two clans: Ophira and Phani(Snakes), and Phineas or the Phoenicians. Vergil calls them Daphnis. Both the sons of Eli were priests at the Temple of Shiloh. In 1 Sm 2:12 they are regarded as ‘sons of Belial’; here scholars consider meaning of Belial as ‘corrupt’ and ‘scoundrels’; but Belial also refers to Bel, or Belala-sena, a designated shepherd king who had highest number of cows. The two brothers died on the same day due to divine wrath. Phineas’ wife hearing the death of news of Eli and her husband Phineas gave birth to a son called Ichabad; and this name identifies the place Iccha-nagala.
Similarly, Elkanah is Loknath and Nathan is Natha; and story of their time and wroks are seen in both Pali and Indian puranas. Natha as name of an enlightened group of ascetics holds a very prominent historic abase in Indian puranic tradition. And in case of Loknath, as the name marks God Mahadeva himself, identify a deva worshippers of the ancient times.