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examining the whole of the Vedic evidence in favor of the Arctic
home. I have referred to them here to show the complete
correspondence between the Hindu and the Parsi scriptures
regarding the day and the night of the Gods, and their unmistakable
Polar characteristics indicating the existence of an early home within
the Arctic circle.
The same traditions are also found in the literature of other
branches of the Aryan race, besides the Hindus and the Parsis. For
instance, Dr. Warren quotes Greek traditions similar to those we have
discussed above. Regarding the primitive revolution of the sky,
Anaximenes, we are told, likened the motions of the heaven in early
days to “the rotating of a man’s hat on his head.”* Another Greek
writer is quoted to show that “at first the Pole-star always appeared in
the zenith.” It is also stated, on the authority of Anton, Krichenbauer,
that in the Iliad and Odyssey two kinds of days are continually
referred to one of a year’s duration, especially when describing the
life and exploits of the Gods, and the other twenty-four hours. The
night of the Gods has its parallel also in the Norse mythology, which
mentions “the Twilight of the Gods,” denoting by that phrase the time
when the reign of Odin and the Æsir, or Gods, would come to an end,
not forever, but to be again revived; for we are told that “from the
dead sun springs a daughter more beautiful than her sire, and
mankind starts afresh from the life-raiser and his bride-life.Ӡ If these
traditions and statements are correct, they show that the idea of halfyearly
night and day of the Gods is not only Indo-Iranian, but Indo-
Germanic, and that it must therefore, have originated in. the original
home of the Aryans. Comparative mythology, it will be shown in a
subsequent chapter, fully supports the view of an original Arctic home
of the Aryan races, and there is nothing surprising if the
* See Paradise Found, 10th Ed., pp. 192 and 200.
† See Cox’s Mythology of the Aryan Nations, p. 41, quoting Brown’s
Religion and Mythology of the Aryans of the North of Europe, Arts, 15-1.