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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, James Dow Allen <jamesdowallen@...> wrote:
> Since early Indo-Europeans had
> no astronomy expertise, but Harappans did, a Harappan adstrate
> should exist in Aryan: math, astronomical and architectural
> terms. Is it there?
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Google "Harappan astronomy" and you get numerous sites that give variants of:
"The star-calendar used by the Vedic ritualists was adopted by the Aryans in India, for there are no references to it in the Avesta or in the oldest books of the Rgveda. On the other hand, astronomical evidence dates the compilation of this calendar at around the 23rd century B.C., when the Indus civilisation flourished at its peak. Like other urban civilisations, it undoubtedly needed a calendar that adjusted the lunar and the solar time-reckoning.
Linkages between ancient Harappan scripts and latter Vedic texts suggest that Harappan priest-astronomers tracked progress of Mercury, Venus and Saturn, and most likely all of the planets.... etc."
It's pure assumption that Vedic astronomy was inherited from the Harappan civilization rather than developed later (or learned from somewhere else).
Dan Milton