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The Religions of India

CHAPTER VIII
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V[=a]ta, Wind, is an aboriginal god, and may perhaps be Wotan, Odin.[20] Parjanya, the rain-god, as Buehler has shown, is one with Lithuanian Perkuna, and with the northern Fioegyu.

The 'fashioner,' Tvashtar (sun) is only Indo-Iranian; Thw[=a]sha probably being the same word.
Of lesser mights, Angiras, name of fire, may be Persian _angaros_, 'fire-messenger' (compare [Greek: haggelos]), perhaps originally one with Sk.

_ang[=a]ra_, 'coal.'[21] Hebe has been identified with _yavy[=a]_, young woman, but this word is enough to show that Hebe has naught to do with the Indian pantheon.

The Gandharva, moon, is certainly one with the Persian Gandarewa, but can hardly be identical with the Centaur.

Saram[=a] seems to have, together with S[=a]rameya, a Grecian parallel development in Helena (a goddess in Sparta), Selene, Hermes; and Sarany[=u] may be the same with Erinnys, but these are not Aryan figures in the form of their respective developments, though they appear to be so in origin.


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