--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:
> I've posted before that I think Hinduism can claim to be the true
> descendant of the PIE religion. ...
Partly. Some parts of it, e.g. cattle being too sacred to eat, and
perhaps some god names and other details, may descend from the
religion of the (Dravidian-speaking?) people who the invading
IE-speakers found in the Indus (and Sarasvati?) river valleys.
It could be that the Sarasvati drying up because its headwaters (the
Jhelum and the upper Jumna alias Yamuna) diverted into other rivers,
helped to kill off the Indus Valley civilization.