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dated to c.2200/2100-1700/1600 BC", "the earliest attested traces of Aryan material culture "and even of Aryan belief". .. "remnants of horse sacrifices and primitive horse drawn chariots with spoked wheels a real tripura adobe bricks frame houses Most tellingly, perhaps, at the site of Potapovka , a unique burial has been found. It contains a human skeleton whose head has been replaced by a horse head, a human head lies near his feet, along with a bone pipe, and a cow‘s head is placed near his knees. This looks like an archaeological illustration of the Rgvedic myth of Dadhyanc, whose head was cut off by Indra and replaced by that of a horse. The bone pipe reminds, as the excavator has noted, of the RV sentence referring to the playing of pipes in Yama‘s realm, the world of the ancestors. (en) |
