The Arctic Home in the Vedas c17.50

c17.50

GAVÂM-AYANAM, a ten-months' yearly sacrifice, or the Cow's Walk, 162; of ten months in the Aitareya Brâhmaṇa, 194; in the Tâittirîya Saṁhitâ, 195, 196; its ten months' duration said to be an immemorial custom, 197; represents the ancient Arctic year, 198; compared with the old Roman year of ten months, 199; meaning of cows (*gavâm*) in, 200-202; the type of yearly sacrifices, 207; an outline scheme of, 208; supplemented by night-sacrifices, 215 *f*., 229, 231, 394. Geikie, Prof., 7; on the commencement of the post-Glacial period, 14; five glacial and four inter-glacial periods according to, 23, 36, 38; on the glacial and inter-glacial climate in the Arctic regions, 24; on Dr. Croll's theory, 35. Geldner, Prof., 323. Geology, eras and periods in, enumerated and described, 11, 12; correlation of geological and archæological ages, 12; Iron, Bronze and Neolithic included in the post-Glacial period and Palæolithic in the Pleistocene or the Glacial, 11; the date of the commencement of the post-Glacial period in, 13; the evidence and extent of glaciation in the glacial period, 13, 23; climate in the early ages of, 21-24; causes of a succession of glacial periods in, 25; Dr. Croll's view, 28-34; estimate of the duration of the glacial period, 36; latest researches in, summary of, 37, 38; supports the Avestic account of the deluge of snow and ice, 383, 384. *See* Archæology, Climate, Glacial period.