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    1) Proto-Indo-European astromyths reflected celestial events from around 5000 BCE, when the Indo-European languages began diverging. 2) A basic Indo-European myth involving a thundergod taking cattle from a water snake reflected the positions of the Hercules, Serpentarius, and Taurus constellations on the winter solstice. 3) Other myths, like a smith god giving birth to the sun, reflected the zenith position of Hercules on the winter solstice around 4000 BCE when the Indo-European languages were diverging.

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    1) Proto-Indo-European astromyths reflected celestial events from around 5000 BCE, when the Indo-European languages began diverging. 2) A basic Indo-European myth involving a thundergod taking cattle from a water snake reflected the positions of the Hercules, Serpentarius, and Taurus constellations on the winter solstice. 3) Other myths, like a smith god giving birth to the sun, reflected the zenith position of Hercules on the winter solstice around 4000 BCE when the Indo-European languages were diverging.

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    1) Proto-Indo-European astromyths reflected celestial events from around 5000 BCE, when the Indo-European languages began diverging. 2) A basic Indo-European myth involving a thundergod taking cattle from a water snake reflected the positions of the Hercules, Serpentarius, and Taurus constellations on the winter solstice. 3) Other myths, like a smith god giving birth to the sun, reflected the zenith position of Hercules on the winter solstice around 4000 BCE when the Indo-European languages were diverging.

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    COMMON INDO-EUROPEAN CHRONOLOGICAL ASTROMYTHS

    Iurii Mosenkis

    Proto-Indo-European astromyths reflected celestial events of the 5 th millennium BCE when the
    divergence of the Indo-European languages began

    Indo-European thundergod, cattles, and water snake


    So-called ‘basic myth’ of the Indo-Europeans (thundergod takes the cattles from the
    water snake) reflects the culmination of the Hercules constellation (regarded as a smith)
    on the winter solstice in the 5th millennium BCE. Hercules located over the Serpentarius
    (snake) near the Milky Way (river). The rise of Serpentarius coincides with the set of
    Taurus (cattles stolen by the water snake) while the set of Serpentarius coincides with
    the rise of Taurus. These images might be observed in the late Proto-Indo-European
    period from the birth of the Sun on the winter solstice (when cattles were stolen) to the
    spring equinox (when cattles were liberated).
    The Snake Goddess cult reflected Ophiuchos / Serpentarius (who holds two snakes)
    as a constellation 1) in direct opposition of the point of the spring equinox and 2) of the
    autumnal equinox during the 5th millennium BCE.

    Indo-European Smithgod Gave Birth to the Sun


    Another Indo-European myth about the smith god who gave birth to the sun (Old
    Rus’ Svarog the Smith, the father of Dazhbog the Sun; the name of Svarog is of Old
    Indian origin1 and means ‘going above’ while the name of Greek Hyperion, the father of
    Helios the Sun, means the same; Old Indian Tvashtar the Smith created Agni the Sun)
    reflected the zenit position of the Hercules constellation in the winter solstice when the
    Sun was newborn about the period of the Indo-European divergence, 4,000 BCE.2

    Indo-European Divine Twins or Pair


    The Proto-Indo-European Divine Twins (Ancient Indian Açvins, Ancient Greek
    Dioscuri) signify the equinoctial sun in Gemini in the last period of the PIE language (6 th
    – 5th millennia BCE)3. The cult of the Mother Goddess reflected the solsticial sun in
    Virgo (Pre-Sumerian Kupapa, Pre-Greek Κυβήβη, Κυβήκη, Κυβήλη) in the same period;
    burning of female figurines on the Jan Baptist day reflected the cult.
    The Indo-European myth of the death of the divine twin (Vedic first dead Yama
    ‘twin’, Avestan Yima ‘twin’ who was leaved by hvarno ‘the Sun’ during the cold time,
    Old Norse Ymir ‘twin’, the first who was killed) marked the end of the Gemini Epoch,
    i. e. the time of the vernal equinox in Gemini which lasted during 6–5 millennia BCE.
    This astronomical event coincided with the end of the good climate period (Neolithic

    1 From the Indo-Aryan language of the Azov Sind people.


    2 IE *perk- ‘thundergod’, ‘oak’ (the Milky Way near the Hercules constellation) > Greek Heracles (a Celtic
    form?), Old Irish erc ‘sky’, Celt. > Lat. Hercynia ‘forest,’ cf. possible Celtic origin of Apollo from Belenus.
    3 Compare: Hamacher, Duane W. The Sumerians and Gemini: Sumerian astronomical interpretations as origins

    of the divine horse twins and solar chariots in Indo-European mythology


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    Subpluvial or Holocene Wet Phase) and the beginning of the cold arid climate period (Bond
    event 4 or 5.9 kiloyear event) about 3900 BCE. The aridification caused the mass
    migrations in the river valleys. The idea of the Neolithic Subpluvial as the Golden Age
    might be related to ‘golden’ Varna archeological culture of the second half of the 5 th
    millennium BCE. The destroy of the Varna site was caused by the same aridification.

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