Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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( 183 ) We find traces of Puruşamedha in Greekāryan society in this age. Kouretes people were banished by Zeus to under-world They came like spirits. They attacked the playing boy, tore him into seven pieces, roasted it over the fire. The child was horned. It shows the sacrifice of a sacred boy. The horns were the emblem of spiritual power and authority in the pre-Olympian Greece. The horns are those of the bull and bull was the manifestation of the supreme God for the ancient Cretans. Learches was slain by Athamas and thrown into a cauldron of seething water.63
We find the echo of the sacrifice of Gaņapati in Greek legends also. Ouranos has been identified with Varuņa," a
Ganapati. Ouranos was sacrificed and from Sacrifice of Ganapati in his blood drops were born the three Erinneys Greece
and also Aphrodite referred to above. He is sacrificed by his son Cronus. The Hittites know Cronus as Kumarbi and Ouranos as Anu.65 Hades, Poseidon and Zeus, counterparts of Mitra, Varuna and Indra ( Indra is son of Dyaus ) represent the three Hellenic invasions; Ionian, Aeolian and Achaean. Early Hellenic chieftains who became sacred kings of the oak and ash cults took the titles Zeus' and 'Poseidou' and were obliged to die at the end of their set reigns. The myth of Zeus' annual death lingered on in Christian times. It was due to the title of Zeus' born by petty kings who had to be sacrificed at a set time. Aeolian chiefs were duly sacrificed at the end of their reigns. The victory of the Achaeans ended the tradition of Royal Sacrifices but the human sacrifices even continued till later times. In Arcadia, boys were still sacrificially eaten even in the Christian era.97
The Aryans lived in a constant state of warfare. They needed male progeny for fighting battles. The position of