Word: aryan
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ARYANA VAEJO. - "Our Aryan Ancestors: their Early Culture, Myths, and Folk Lore." Four Lectures by John Fiske...
...Aryans. - Who are the Aryans? Origin and meaning of the name. The Comparative Method. Survey of Aryan languages. Huxley's theory of the race-elements in Europe...
...Linguistic Palaeontology. - How we arrive at conclusions concerning the culture of the primitive Aryans. Grimm's Law. Reconstruction of the Aryan mother-tongue. Old Aryan names for houses, towns, domestic animals...
...Aryan Myths and Folk-Lore. - Mediaeval books of folk-lore. The Grimms and their followers. The Travelling Musicians. The ass in Vedic mythology. Community of Aryan folk-lore. The magician Punchkin. Russian story of Koshchei the Deathless. Mythologic origin of folk-lore...
...speaking of life, he compares the "tendency of our society towards individualization," "based upon what may be called the arithmetical view of life, that regards society as made up of units, any one of which is equal to any other," with the patriarchal state that existed among our distant Aryan forefathers. In the latter, each individual found a place allotted him which he was expected to fill with fidelity and loyalty, and in which, "while true to his position, each had his function and his support." In the society of our day much greater energy is called forth...