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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Koenraad" <koenraad.elst@...> wrote:
> Dear listfolk,
>
> We already knew, but now the world is learning about the Aryans'
> staging-ground for further expansion:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/273phed
QUOTE:
<< [British historian Bettany Hughes] believes that some of the strongest evidence that the cities could be the home of the Aryans comes from a series of horse burials. Several ancient Indian texts believed to have been written by Aryans recount similar rituals. "These ancient Indian texts and hymns describe sacrifices of horses and burials and the way the meat is cut off and the way the horse is buried with its master," she said. >>
OK as regards the descriptions of horse sacrifices in Vedic texts.
OK as regards the descriptions of burials in Vedic texts.
But, where in the Vedic corpus do we find evidence for the burial of horse with his master in a manner similar to Arkaim's man-and-horse burials? David Anthony (_The Horse, the Wheel, and Language_, p. 409) writes that "the horse sacrifice at a royal funeral is described in RV 1.162", yet I can't see any reference to a funeral in this asvamedha hymn.
Puzzled,
Francesco