The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.158.3

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Stars, spinning round and round at the Pole, 45, 46; motion of, in circum-polar region, 51, 52. Stone-age, See Ages, Neolithic, Palæolithic. Storm-theory, 3, 242-244; its inadequacy to explain the legend of Indra and Vṛitra, 250-254. Striæ, scratches, glacial, 23. Sudâs, engaged in fight with the ten non-sacrificing kings, 345. Summer, long and cool in inter-glacial time, 32, 38. Sun, or Sûrya, shining and disappearing for six months at the Pole, 46; rising in the south, 46; a matutinal Vedic deity, 74; southern course of, in Polar regions, 53; described in the Veda as unyoking his car and halting in the midst of heaven, 140; standing still in the Bible, 141; rocking like a gold swing in the heaven, 142; different suns for different seasons, 154, 155; dwelling in darkness, 163, 164, 321; his eye covered with aerial vapour, 184; falling beyond the heaven, 192; conceived as the son of Dyu and Earth, 314; described as moving in the mother's womb, while above the horizon, 314; his exit from the womb after ten months explained, 314, 315; a paradox arising therefrom, 316, 317; his wheel or orb, 319 f. his chariot a mono-cycle, 321; stolen by Indra, 322; on the completion of ten, meaning of, 323-326; See, Horses, Prapitva, Rays.