The Arctic Home in the Vedas c7.20

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dours of the Aurora Borealis visible at the North Pole. So far as the Post-Vedic literature is concerned we, have, therefore, not only the tradition of the half-year-long night and day of the Gods persistently mentioned, but the Mount Meru, or the North Pole, is described with such accuracy as to lead us to believe that it is an ancient tradition, whose origin must be traced to a time when these phenomena were daily observed by the people; and this is confirmed by the fact that the tradition is not confined only to the Post-Vedic literature.