the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>edsel at glo.be writes:

>Equus October in Rome, As'vamedha in India. (note also Brahman <> Flamen).
>Usually (I don't know in this case) at least parts of sacrificed animals were
>eaten. >>

-- many other examples of horse sacrifice, too -- Celtic, as in the
*ekwo-medu, "horse-mead", derived from the Gallic personal name Epomeduos.

And the Sintasha graves show evidence of ritual sacrifice of horses (in a
rather Vedic manner... 8-).

The "horse-drunk" would appear to be a good candidate for a PIE religious
ceremony, involving sacrificing a horse and getting totally blitzed on mead.

The pagan Germanics, btw, certainly did both sacrifice horses and eat the
flesh of the sacrifice.