No, if things started from a cental source, and spread as the IE cultural theory goes, the myths should have changed even more than they did. But since they had related languages, memes were able to travel and take hold in these diverse cultures due to trade, not a common cultural heritage. These varied people didn't spring from a common origin, but from diverse origins. Giving them all a common origin was the aim of the racist colonial cultures, since they didn't want to admit that India could have had a higher/longer culture than England did, they had to create a common origin so that they were on at least the same footing as the Indian culture. I mean it is pretty stupid to say that Greece had a culture that is closer to the Norse than to the Egyptians simply because they spoke an Indo-European tounge! Just look at how they practiced their religions...Greeks and Egyptians built massive temples and temple complexes to their Gods, while the Norse practiced in a way that was closer to shamanic.
When Isaac first put ADF together, IE culture was still considered gospel, but these days, it is considered flawed science, on the level of Magaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa", but without as good a rebuttal which Derek Freeman provided to Mead's work.
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Date: 2004-01-04 03:36 pm (UTC)When Isaac first put ADF together, IE culture was still considered gospel, but these days, it is considered flawed science, on the level of Magaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa", but without as good a rebuttal which Derek Freeman provided to Mead's work.
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