reply to post by Mailman
uh no, the populations that became native americans mostly came from asian populations.
also, " proto-indo-european" is not a tribe or a small group, it is a linguistic name for the trunk language that most european and indian languages
this includes, english, french german,greek, italian, latin, iranian, sanskrit, and quite a huge number. this is in contrast to the middle eastern
languages like semitic:hebrew,sumarian,aramic and arabic,etc , or sino-tibetan, chinese, japanese, tibetan etc.
i'm not sure where you get the idea that this tribe had any connection with european mythology, their beliefs bear no resemblance to eastern or
western european mythology.
a lot of mythologies use the same symbology, but that doesn't mean that one comes from another. before christianity the slavic peoples more than
likely had similar beliefs as the norse, the greeks and the celts.
there is little evidence left of their native beliefs after being converted, mostly like other european tribes, they had no written language, so most
is second hand from priests.
but from what can be gathered, there were two gods, perun and veles the first a storm god and the other a cattle god. later on they became opposites,
often depicted as perun fighting veles in the form of a giant serpent and perun as an eagle.
this is why you see monoliths with eagles, because perun was often depicted as one. perun being a storm god is theorized to be an evolution of a
proto-indo-european god of thunder, he has analogs in other cultures.
from zeus to jupiter, to indra, to thor, as well as perkele the finnish god of thunder. the reconstruction name is perkwunos.
how does that have any connection with native american mythology though? the people you are referring to believed their gods were animals and while
many did have a creator god i see nothing from this tribe.
i think you should realize that a lot of ideas come from being human not from one group coming up with the belief and spreading it or one group coming