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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: "Out of India"
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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:02:04 GMT
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As far as how long a memory of ancestral movement and previous homelands 
go, one has to consider also the effect of the possibility that currently 
IE speaking peoples are largely descended from populations whose female 
ancestors were largely indigenous to (India, Greece, wherever) but whose 
*male* ancestors were largely immigrants, albeit Alpha Male Dominant type 
immigrants, not itinerant field hands.  This possibility raises questions 
about which parent's memories the next generation would be likely to 
preserve, and about the sex of the conduits of legendary material.  These
questions are (I submit) not answerable, but they *are* available for 
polemical use, i.e., they are very newsgroup-friendly (?).  Cf. Eisler's 
reading of Hesiod.

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