Friday, April 1, 2016


In noting an Iranian term is used for bow and quiver in the Greek language and the Achaean culture with ties to the Mycenaeans has Indo-Iranian attribution, Elena Kuz’mina writes in her 2007 book on the Indo-Iranians that:

“In Greek myth Apollo, the Sun god, was born in the north, in the Ripa mountains.  In the vernal equinox [Spring equinox or March 20 = Zoroastrian Iranian New Year] white swans harnessed to a chariot carry him to Greece….  Ripa is the name of the Ural mountains, which are situated according to Indo-Iranian mythology in their homeland….  In the Urals, on the vernal equinox, there is a mass swan migration….  These facts support the existence of the areal Greek-Indo-Iranian contacts and the corresponding localization of the homeland in the steppes, to be more exact, in the Urals.”


[pic source anylatitude:  The Urals, an ancestral homeland… for educational purposes only]

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