> > Just got Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak's > > book from India: > > Vaj wrote: > Unless, of course, if the Vedas are a > corruption of the Tamil Veda, which probably > came from Kumari Kandam. :-) > As it happens, Vaj, the only evidence which establishes any kind of antiquity for the Aryan gods, even if they originated in the Arctic or in Tamil Nadu, as a matter of certainty and not mere supposition, is epigraphic (ancient inscriptions) evidence, according to Witzel.
Unfortunately for Mullquist and yourself, the oldest epigraphs have been found not in India but in Asia Minor. The reference is in a tablet in Hittite cuneiform and written in the Akkadian language, discovered at Boghazkoy, according to Renfrew. Apparently there is a close linguistic affinity between the Mitannians and the Indo-Aryans in respect in cuneiform, which contains the so-called Horse Treatise by a Mitannian named Kikkuli. This was also found at Boghazkoy according to Frawley.
