Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.9

c14.9

And it seems likely that this can be taken a step further, to include the ritual and mythology with which so much of the early languages were concerned, so that it is not by chance that elements of the curious and complicated ritual of the ancient Indian horse-sacrifice are found again among the Altai Turks of modern times, and survived until the twelfth century A.D. in Ireland. We shall see, indeed, that the whole structure of ancient Indian society, and the manner of its warfare, as reflected in the earliest Sanskrit texts, is often strikingly reminiscent of the Irish heroic tales of the Celtic Iron Age, although so widely separated from them in time and space.