"«the variety of Andronovo funeral rites finds a complete and thorough correlation in early indic texts ». (p.195)... These “hearths comprise a shallow round or oval pit… often covered with flat stone slabs on the bottom…. This hearth is described in ancient Indian texts as the domestic fire gārhapatya-, ‘fire of the master of the house’… Such hearths were used for ritual purposes: a bride would go around it, a widow would perform a ritual dance, people jumped over it during a feast.” (p.45)... [Another type of hearth] “has a rectangular form… and was made of closely adjusted rectangular stone slabs inserted into the ground on their narrow ends. Such hearths were found in the centre of a house, kept clean, and it is likely that they had a ritual function… This type of hearth corresponded to the early Indian special cult hearth āhavanīya…” (p.45)"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Elena Kuzmina, Origin of the Indo-Iranians (Brill, Leiden). quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elena_Efimovna_Kuzmina
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Elena Efimovna Kuzmina
Elena Efimovna Kuzmina (Russian: Еле́на Ефи́мовна Кузьмина́; 13 April 1931 – 17 October 2013) was a Russian archaeologist. She was the chief research officer of the Russian Institute for Cultural Researches. She led twenty five archaeological expeditions and participated in over a hundred, mostly in the Eurasian steppe region.
13 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Elena Efimovna Kuzmina →
Related Quotes
"Unfortunately, E. E. Kuzmina, whose archaeological knowledge is very vast, uses Indian sources in very outdated trans…"
"According to Kuzmina, the fact that the essential equipment of the Indo-Aryan charioteers in the Mitanni kingdom and …"
"“H. Oldenberg showed that in spite of the genetic closeness of religious beliefs, the Vedas and Avesta differ conside…"
"“Kinsmen marry each other among modern Iranian peoples (…) This could be attributed to the caste system in India when…"
"“An ancient term for ‘cattle’ was recorded in the Avesta and was later attributed to ‘sheep’ in the Iranian languages…"
"“Part of the Andronovo toponyms can only be interpreted as Indo-Aryan”. Moreover, ”the Indo-Iranian toponyms of the p…"
"“Federovo monuments are discovered not only in the Urals but also in the south of Central Asia and Afghanistan, where…"
"“The hypothesis of an origin of the Fedorovo type in the Urals has been disputed. The sources for Fedorovo ceramic te…"
"Material culture including “a cult of the horse” moves from the eastern slopes of the Urals to Central Asia, but: “Th…"
"A migration that is identified, however, is east-to-west: “a part of the Timber-grave tribes moved [from Uzbekistan o…"