It is scarcely possible that Earth is an Aryan deity with a cult, though different Aryan (and un-Aryan) nations regarded her as divine.

The Maruts are especially Indian and have no primitive identity as gods with Mars, though the names may be radically connected.

The fire-priests, Bhrigus, are supposed to be one with the [Greek: phlegixu].

The fact that the fate of each in later myth is to visit hell would presuppose, however, an Aryan notion of a torture-hell, of which the Rig Veda has no conception.

The Aryan identity of the two myths is thereby made uncertain, if not implausible.