Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Sintashta eclipse?

Here I am breaking mine own rule about affixing questionmarks to a title. But: Rig Veda Samahita mentions some eclipses, which are now taken semiseriously. One reference describes the vernal equinox as occurring in Orion, and another has it occurring in the Pleiades. That's 4500 BC and 2230 BC respectively.

The eclipse in the vernal age of Orion is that exciting these astrohistorians. The eclipse occurred three days before the autumnal equinox; the compiler, it seems, marked the year from the vernal.

The ex silentio is evoked inasmuch as the eclipses are not related to such Vedic-era Indian mythology as Rahu and Ketu. So this mythology is either preHindu or paraHindu. Historically Hindu nationalists tend to consider the Indus as the home of the Vedas (which it is; excepting Samahita), and they don't place mythical river Sarasvati at Arachosia as they should. Thus also, the dissimilarity principle.

Given the language and recent genetics, the most-likely origin of outside influence would be Central Asia. The paper makes the maths work out there 22 October 4202 BC and 19 October 3811 BC.

This is made possible I think by recent acceptance of indigenous lore in Australia, the Pacific Northwest, and Crater Lake.

I am unsure what we do with this lore, if it be lore.

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