From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 13298
Date: 2002-04-17
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From: anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: This Whole Indian Horse Thing [obiter]
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> I have read a theory that the IVC was wiped out by a Tunguska-type
> asteroid impact.
Could be; but improbable.
> It could be that the IVC collapsed for the same reason as Mesopotamia
> sometimes went into politically weak phases, namely excess population
> making agriculture get too intensive trying to feed them all, leading
> to irrigated soil becoming salinated.
Weak phases only make a locality open to attack by "the others".
> The Aryans invading might have found some sort of native population
> trying to subsist along the rivers, but not the full IVC. Rigveda
> book 2 hymn 12 verse 11 says that Indra needed 40 years to track down
> and kill a drought-dragon-demon hiding in mountains (and would likely
> have the sympathy of British troops who had to search for such
> outlaws as the Fakir of Ipi in the same sort of area, or of UK RM
> marines in Afghanistan now). That sounds like that the area had got
> into a prolonged drought, and Indra's dart that killed Vrtra
> represents thunderstorm lightning when the rains started coming again
> at last.
Not an improbable arguement. I just might concur.
Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Independent Scholar