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INDIAN MYTH AND
LEGEND
CHAPTER I
Indra, King of the Gods
Types of Hammer Gods—The Aryan Indra—Chinese World Shaper—
Scottish Hunting Deity—Egyptian Artisan God—Greek and Roman Thunder
Gods—Thor—Hittite, Assyrian, and other types—A Wail from Palestine—
Babylonian Influence—Indra's Indian Character—A Nature Myth—Drought
Demon slain—Gods and Demons in conflict—Origin of Indra's Thunderbolt
—Demons' plot to destroy Universe—Babylonian Creation Myth—How Indra
Shaped the World—Elfin Artisans in India, Egypt, and Germania—Babylonian
:- Artisan God—Indra the Harvest God—The God of Battle—Comparison with
1 Thor—Aryan Cattle Lifters—Indra's Queen and Attendants.
The ancient Eur-Asian " hammer god", bearing the
tribal name of Indra, accompanied the earliest invading,
bands of hunting and pastoral Aryans, who hailed with
joy the "fresh woods and pastures new" of the Punjab,
I the green country of " Five Rivers". This deity of
wanderers and invaders was already of great antiquity and
wide distribution; his attributes were in accord with the
habits and ideals of his worshippers; they multiplied with
I the discoveries of man and were ever influenced by the
conditions prevailing in new areas of localization. He
i was the Thunderer who brought rain to quicken dried-up
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LEGEND
CHAPTER I
Indra, King of the Gods
Types of Hammer Gods—The Aryan Indra—Chinese World Shaper—
Scottish Hunting Deity—Egyptian Artisan God—Greek and Roman Thunder
Gods—Thor—Hittite, Assyrian, and other types—A Wail from Palestine—
Babylonian Influence—Indra's Indian Character—A Nature Myth—Drought
Demon slain—Gods and Demons in conflict—Origin of Indra's Thunderbolt
—Demons' plot to destroy Universe—Babylonian Creation Myth—How Indra
Shaped the World—Elfin Artisans in India, Egypt, and Germania—Babylonian
:- Artisan God—Indra the Harvest God—The God of Battle—Comparison with
1 Thor—Aryan Cattle Lifters—Indra's Queen and Attendants.
The ancient Eur-Asian " hammer god", bearing the
tribal name of Indra, accompanied the earliest invading,
bands of hunting and pastoral Aryans, who hailed with
joy the "fresh woods and pastures new" of the Punjab,
I the green country of " Five Rivers". This deity of
wanderers and invaders was already of great antiquity and
wide distribution; his attributes were in accord with the
habits and ideals of his worshippers; they multiplied with
I the discoveries of man and were ever influenced by the
conditions prevailing in new areas of localization. He
i was the Thunderer who brought rain to quicken dried-up
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