Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> Something reminiscent of Hinduism (Vedic) might
> have been around at that time.
Indeed, there are common elements, like the worship of Sky-Father,
visible in many IE languages; we can also find legal elements (and that
far back, law is part of religion) that are in common across the IE-speaking
cultures, e.g. noxal surrender (the practice of transferring an animal or
child that has injured another to the other).

The theme of the "kingship in heaven", where successive waves of new gods
supersede the old ones, seems to be a Semitic notion that the Greeks
picked up at some point, perhaps when they invaded Greece and mixed with
the Shore People.

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