COMMON INDO-EUROPEAN CHRONOLOGICAL ASTROMYTHS

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 From the Indo-Aryan language of the Azov Sind people. 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 http://www.webcitation.org/5tso8HIGS 1 2

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.