En intressant tråd. Men man blir lite fundersam på hur de egentligen gått tillväga när de satt samman den här religionen.
Curwen Rolinson, hindu och religionforskare, som driver ett institut där man forskar kring indo-europeiska religioner skriver på twitter 8 augusti :
"Our serious effort, as ever, is to work out how we get the useful *essence* and thence produce viable, verifiable, victorious *tangible expression* for same.
And there is some considerable danger, I feel, in simply attempting to reduce all problems down to a 'previously solved one' of two thousand years afore - as we are now in a different situation in important, fundamental ways; indeed, in a direr situation, unquestionably.
We see this often with the Germanic revivalist sphere (that I occasionally assist some people with, for obvious reasons).
Some of them get into serious trouble internally over ... not wanting to acknowledge that there is a thousand years of history since Sturluson -
Some others get into serious trouble over not wanting to acknowledge that there are ... well, both 'gaps' and 'inaccuracies' in Sturluson's work; as well as those who do not want to acknowledge just how much *accuracy* there is in it likewise. A most complex situation indeed!
The better approach, I feel - is to take a longitudinal view ... and see what remains true , and understand *how* it is to be true, across that broad span. This helps to avoid some of the more obvious issues with overreliance upon limited texts and the biases therein.
The point is, it is a risky situation to simply pick up something from a different time, a different context, and attempt to roll it out uncritically today.
It must be handled with significant care and caution.
And upon an essence-tial basis."
Och som Rolinson skriver på institutets sajt :
"The way we see it – the Indo-European religion is the Indo-European religion.
The Indo-European Gods are the Indo-European Gods.
We know that this was the case on the Urheimat – and that in the intervening thousands of years and thousands of miles … the Gods, the rites, the legends were carried forward in different directions.
Yet retaining their fundamental identity. Our fundamental identity. They did not suddenly stop being the Indo-European Gods at some arbitrary point of time or space away from these shared origins.
Some shifts have occurred, yes – yet this is a scenario of different ‘sects’ or ‘denominations’ within the same overarching faith.
Now, of this broad coterminity – we have often observed that two of the closest of these spheres are the Eddic and the Vedic .
You can virtually read some of the materials directly across from one to the other with little interpolation needed – as I have repeatedly demonstrated in the course of my work.
This does NOT mean that we are only interested in that particular concordancy, however – in the course of my work, I frequently draw strong parallels and inferences from the Greek, Roman, Scythian, Hittite, Celtic, Slavic, etc. etc. etc. spheres.
In some areas, we make more overt use of elements from these other spheres, and the Nordic elements barely figure.
However it is rare indeed that we do not make strong nor salient use of the Hindu, the Vedic corpus.
And that is because, simply put, it is the oldest and most comprehensive, most complete Indo-European corpus we have.
It is the closest we can viably get to the Urheimat in many regards."
"As is commonly known, there is a fantastic and beautiful swathe of material that we do have preserved from the Viking Age … come down to us via Christian era authors who had to stitch together and euhemerize in order to make what they could of it … and which is not quite a functional religion in various key particulars.
It needs help, and reconstructive support from elsewhere in the Indo-European sphere.
And we are in the position to provide that assistance.
The Germanic/Nordic religious revival is probably the most successful Indo-European resurrection going on today. It is not the most successful Indo-European religion of course – that is ours, by which I mean the Hindu one … but that is not a resurrection … it is not a “come-back”, because it never died, it never went away. The Nordic one, by contrast, is pulling off something quite remarkable in doing as it is doing. And it must be said – so, too, are some other efforts amidst the Roman, Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and other such groups.
Our perspective is that if you are in Europe – then for various reasons, the House of your Ancestors has burned down. That is sad – that is tragic.
Many are engaged in the collective work of rebuilding those houses. And that is quite a difficult thing to do – especially after all of this time and in the absence of so much building material and even the design, the architectural schemas for such.
So it is incredibly fortunate that our Cousins to the East have maintained such a large and impressive house – and are in many cases quite amenable to letting us shelter with them for awhile. For we are Kin.
Part of my effort is to show this – that Kinship ; and to get people thinking more properly about this. Which includes showing the appropriate and proper reciprocal feeling of respect toward their fellow Indo-European Man and his or her religious heritage."
"It is not that I have an obsession with connecting the Nordic religion to Hinduism.
It is that the Nordic religion is already connected to Hinduism.
My ‘obsession’, if you like – is in re-illuminating this essential truth."
https://aryaakasha.com/2021/02/13/on-our-mission/
