"In a paper published in the Journal of Indo-European Studies where I examined the cognate names of deities and some mythological themes in IE languages, I wrote: “no major mythological (or religious) feature appears in two or more branches to the exclusion of the Vedic. On the contrary, feature after feature appears in the RV in common with one or two other branches to the exclusion o the others – sometimes with the Greek and the Roman, sometimes with the Roman and the Celtic and so on... I do not consider [IE] traditions other than the Vedic as very reliable and would not draw definite conclusions from them unless the issue is attested in the Veda... I would concur with... ideas for the PIE period only if they were present in the Veda too”."
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Kazanas, N. (2002). Indigenous Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda: Indo-Aryan migration debate. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 30(3-4), 275-334. (2001: 285, 288).
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