> according to anthony: > "many of the qualities of indo-iranian god of might/victory, verethraghna, were transferred to the god indra, who became the central deity of the developing old indic culture. indra was the subject of 250 hymns, a quarter of the rig veda. he was associated more than any other deity with soma, a stimulant drug (perhaps derived from ephedra) probably borrowed from the bmac religion. his rise to prominence was a peculiar trait of the old indic speakers." interesting how people from the steppe like the aryans such as the germanics, celtics and etruscans also changed/modified the dyeus pater, but in their case, with odin, dagda and voltumna, they seem to have focused on more in the mercurian/psychopompic and plutonian/chthonic aspects related to magic than jupiterian/celestial and martial/belicist ones. even though zeus also had a version like this:   chios
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