Horse sacrifice

"Kazanas appears to be on fairly sound ground when he argues that the horse sacrifice in a late Ancient Mesopotamian text is due to Vedic influence. A rich horse mythology is attested in almost all Indo-European traditions, the horse sacrifice is referred to in late hymns of the Ṛgveda (RV 1.162 and RV 1.163), and is perhaps alluded to in the early family books (RV 3.53.11), and the peculiarity that in both the Vedic and Ancient Mesopotamian traditions a priest whispers into one of the horse’s ears would seem to indicate that the borrowing is a certainty."

"The savage dies — they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire — we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it through the sky."