[[indo-european-branches]] --- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alcaios/Indo-Iranian) [Encyclopædia Iranica](https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/indo-iranian-religion) ## Sub-branches [[iranian-religion]] [[indo-aryan-religion]] ## Biblio [[ragozin1895]] [[lincoln1981]] [[keith1917]] [[kuzmina2007]] Historical Genesis [[v-sadovski2018b]] [[ahmadi2015-th]] [[robertson1911]] Influence on Christianity [[s-kakUNKNOWN]] [[ara2006]] Eschatology [[saeedipour2012a]] Religion [[parpola2015]] IE & Indus influence on Hinduism [[jacob1999]] Near Eastern Connections ## Topics [[pii-gods]] [[pii-priests]] [[indic-soma]] [[pii-order]] [[atharvan]] [[aryan]] [[vajra]] [[pii-worship-yajna-yasna]] [[pii-piety]] ### Creation Narrative ### Priests & Sacrifice ### Interpreting the pantheon Scholars have interpreted the pantheon in a variety of ways: 1. as personified abstractions of a moral nature ([[p-thieme1957]]) 2. as expressing cosmic dualism ([[kuiper]]) 3. as a projection of the household ([[bailey1975]]) 4. as a projection of a tripartite class system ([[dumezil1945]]) Lincoln ([[lincoln1981]]p11-12n56) critiqued these 4 theories, saying they focused too much on gods and not enough on myth, ritual, etc. ### Pastoralism They, compared to the other IE branches, best preserved PIE pastoralism. [[lincoln1981]]p6n27 ## External Links [Wikipedia: Indo-Iranians#Religion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranians#Religion)