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random2187 t1_ja50fv2 wrote

Reply to comment by mindless_chooth in 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq. by Rifletree

Probably not since the Sumerian pantheon is from well before Indo-European migration which spread the those figures throughout Eurasia, though there are synchronisms later in Mesopotamia history and at least one inscription which directly invoked Agni. There’s also a very loose theory that Harappan/Indus River Valley Civilization and the Sumerians were related, though there is no real evidence to back this up as of yet. There’s currently an ancient dna project testing if the IRVC and Sumerians shared ancestry, and if that’s confirmed then there is a possibility of synchronisms

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SolomonBlack t1_ja5k92q wrote

Indus River isn’t known to be Indo-European though. So any connection to the Vedas would likely be syncretic too.

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random2187 t1_ja5khae wrote

You’re right, sorry I didn’t mean to imply that IRVC = Indo European but I see that’s how it comes across in my comment

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