Artic Home of the Aryans by Lokamanya Bal ... - Mandhata Global

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this book in regard to the Vedic and Avestic traditions. This has
considerably lightened our labor in regard to the examination of Celtic
and Teutonic myths from our point of view, and our thanks are due to
Prof. Rhys for the same. But we feel sure that if the Vedic evidence
and facts stated and discussed in the foregoing chapters had been
known to the learned Professor before he wrote his work, he would
have expressed himself still more confidently regarding the inference
to be drawn from the traces of Arctic origin discernible in Teutonic
myths; but even as it is, the value of his testimony stands very high in
the decision of the question before us. It is the testimony of an expert
given after a critical and careful examination of all Celtic and Teutonic
Myths, and after comparing them with similar Greek traditions; and
when this testimony falls in so completely with the conclusions we
have drawn from an independent consideration of the Vedic and
Avestic myths, our results may, so to say, be regarded as doubly
proved. It has already been shown that the results of comparative
philology also support, or, at any rate, are not inconsistent with our
conclusions. The theory of the Asiatic home may be said to have
been now abandoned on linguistic or etymological grounds, but it has
not yet been proved that the Neolithic Aryan races of Europe were
autochthonus in the countries where their remains are now found.
Therefore the question of the original home of the Aryan people is still
an open question, and we are free to draw any conclusion regarding
the ancient home from a legitimate consideration of the traditional
evidence before us. Prof. Rhys has well described the situation by
observing that the teachings of evolution may force us to look for the
original home still farther north in the Arctic regions. In fact we have
to go to a latitude which will give us seven months’ sunshine, or a
hundred nights’ continuous darkness, or thirty days’ continuous dawn.
The question whether the home of other nations, beside the Aryan,
can be traced to the North Pole, has been ably discussed by Dr.
Warren in his