Were the Tuatha De Danann really from India?
Upvote:4
The Irish (Gaelic) culture and Vedic culture are generally understood to have a common origin in the Proto-Indo-European culture. Gaelic and Sanskrit are both Indo-European languages. Some linguists have reconstructed Proto-Indo-European deities, from which some of the Irish and Hindu deities are believed to be derived, with varying levels of confidence.
Among these are *Dehnu- (proposed origin of Vedic goddess Dānu and Irish goddess Danu) and *Neptonos or *Hepom Nepōts (proposed origin of Vedic god Apám Nápát and Irish god Nechtain).
There are also similarities between the practices and beliefs of the Gaelic druids and the Hindu Brahmins, that may share a common origin as well. However, these are not understood to have come from India. The Proto-Indo-Europeans are generally understood to have come from an eastern European or central Asian location, their descendants having migrated to both the British Isles and the Indian subcontinent, among other locations.
More post
- 📝 What were the alleged crimes that Conradin, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, was accused of?
- 📝 What Roman Republican legal structures lasted into the Empire and which ones didn't?
- 📝 Did any relatives of Fritz Haber (the inventor of poison gas) die in the gas chambers?
- 📝 Virtus romana vs h*m*sexuality
- 📝 Who were the earliest Californian university students?
- 📝 Would Stalin have dropped the nuclear bomb on Germany in 1945, if he had it then?
- 📝 What was the population of the Umayyad Caliphate in 750 CE?
- 📝 What land did Polish nationalists claim in 1914?
- 📝 When and how was West/East-German citizenship determined in the early years of post-war Germany?
- 📝 What is the origin of Americans sometimes refering to the Second World War "the Good War"?
- 📝 Could a jeweler in 1800 AD tell a synthetic gem stone is fake?
- 📝 Why was Lenin's brother executed, when he himself was only banished?
- 📝 Why has English become the global language?
- 📝 How advanced was the satellite technology during the Yom Kippur War?
- 📝 Did Constantine XI will his titles to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain?
- 📝 Did the passage from Latin to English, in England, help science flourish?
- 📝 The manuscript Summa Logicae (William of Ockham)
- 📝 Did any civil resistence against the allied occupation of Japan exist?
- 📝 Is there a majority viewpoint for the fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization?
- 📝 What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction in the South?
- 📝 Who first precisely measured the length of the year?
- 📝 Why did the French "surrender" all of its troops during the armistice in World War II?
- 📝 Was any significant percentage of Mongol army infantry?
- 📝 Prisons and prison laws in Old Testament times?
- 📝 How significant was the US military role during the NATO campaign in Libya?
- 📝 What were the flaws in the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey?
- 📝 Did Julius Caesar reduce the number of slaves?
- 📝 Why is Britain the only country called "perfidious"?
- 📝 Do we know who graduated from the University of Mexico in the 1700s?
- 📝 How did the US Navy raise sunken battleships in WWII?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Were the Tuatha De Danann really from India?
- 📝 Why were Sri Lanka and Myanmar separated from India under the British Empire?
- 📝 Did Albert Einstein really receive this rejection letter from the University of Bern?
- 📝 What were the main causes of successful take over of India by Britain?
- 📝 Why were nomadic tribes (like the Mongols) from the Eurasian steppes a much reduced threat from the 15th century onwards?
- 📝 Why were the Irish exempt from conscription during WWI?
- 📝 Why were people from the Asian Steppes able to militarily dominate Europeans on a repeated basis?
- 📝 Were bookshops 'common' in the late 19th century, and how did they differ from modern ones?
- 📝 Why were women excluded from the succession line in the Meiji constitution?
- 📝 What were the factors that caused the world to move away from the Gold Standard in the 20th century?
- 📝 Were there reasons for Japan to go to war with the US aside from the US owning Philippines?
- 📝 What were the thoughts of the Celts, Romans and other ancient European people about the standing stones which survive from prehistoric times?
- 📝 How many British navy officers were from lower classes at the end of 18th century?
- 📝 Are there any historians who believe that the crusades were not motivated as a distraction from internal conflicts?
- 📝 What words were obliterated from the Great Colonnade at Palmyra?
- 📝 Why were gravediggers, actors and former gladiators (but not slaves) banned from the Colosseum?
- 📝 From what part(s) of Germany were the majority of Texas immigrants in the mid-19th century?
- 📝 What weapons were manufactured in India by the British forces which were used during world wars?
- 📝 Were the (early 17th C) arrivers/colonists to North America (USA) outcasts from European societies?
- 📝 Were any of the early settlements in America attacked from the sea?
- 📝 How close were the living standards of India compared to England during the medieval period?
- 📝 How were the Morisco refugees from Europe received in North Africa, given that they were foreigners and Christian?
- 📝 Were the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs ever discovered really found in Qustul in Ancient Nubia?
- 📝 Why were Muslims in Western Thrace and Christians in Constantinople excluded from the population exchange?
- 📝 How large were the East India Company armed forces?
- 📝 Were taxes from senatorial provinces and imperial provinces sent to their respective treasuries in the Roman Empire? (Under the rule of Augustus)
- 📝 Were mounted soldiers really an advancement during the Middle Ages?
- 📝 What jobs were available for migrants from the country to Rome?
- 📝 Were the greatest rulers from before the Classical Antiquity known by ancient historians?
- 📝 What were the major imports and exports of Germany and France from 1850-1915?