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It is certain that the tablets belong to a period in the evolution of the Aryan religion when Indra , Varuna and the other gods associated with them , stillretained their early Vedic pre – eminence and had not yet been thrown into the shade by the Brahmanic Prajapati or the epic and Puranic Trimurti.
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These were the outstanding features of the religion of the earliest civilization of India. Next, let us look at the religion of the early Aryan people, ...
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1. Early Aryan Religion: There are clear indications in the Avesta that the religion of the Medes and Persians before Zoroaster's time agreed in most respects with that of the Indian Aryans, and in a less degree with the beliefs of the Aryans in general.
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1. Early Aryan Religion ... All the Aryan tribes in very ancient times showed great respect for the dead, though they carefully distinguished them from the gods (compare Rig-Veda X, 56, 4). The latter were principally the powers of Nature, the wind, fire, water, the sky, the sun, the earth, and a host of personifications.
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Home > Encyclopedias > International Standard Bible Encyclopedia >; Persian Religion (ancient) ... 1. Early Aryan Religion ... All the Aryan tribes in very ancient times showed great respect for the dead, though they carefully distinguished them from the gods (compare Rig-Veda X, 56, 4). The latter were principally the powers...
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In the Indus Valley Civilization renunciation was the ideal of religious life, while in the Aryan religion the ideal state is the householder state. ... So while in the early days of the Aryan Civilization the priests and warriors were the most important figures - the priest because he communicated with the gods,
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