SV: Origins of the "double-truth"

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

--- Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse at ONLINE.NO> wrote:
> It seems to me that religious
> ideas that are recorded outside the Mediterranean world (e.g. among Celts
> and Germanic tribes) are less likely to have been "imported" and more
> likely to be relics of a common tradition in the sense of Dumezil.
>
> Lincoln, by the way, is extremely critical of Dumezil.
>
> Unfortunately, any theory dealing with such early matters is likely to be
> problematic, and definite proof of one view or the other is impossible to
> find. We end up arguing about what is more or less likely.  I think I'll
> leave it at that!

Stuart Sarbacker wrote once:
<<
 There's an interesting recent article on the YS as being an extension
 of a Indo-European tradition.  It doesn't definitively address
 language but looks at "cognate" themes in the YS and the Odyssey
 among other references.  N.J. Allen "The Indo-European prehistory of
 yoga," International Journal of Hindu Studies 2, 1 (April 1998): 1-20.

 As far as I know there are suggestions of the YS being an extension
 of earlier Sanskrit sources (Hiranyagarbha, etc.) and its ideas being
 pre-Indo-European...but non-Sanskrit YS "text" I have not heard of.
 Have you found something to suggest this?
>>

 Does Allen give examples of Yoga practices among Celta and Germanic
tribes, OR just only Greek examples? Yoga can also be a term (IE?) used
to describe a phenomenon encountered in India.



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