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  • This satanic cult-practice was introduced to Mesopotamia from pre-Aryan India [which was Inanna/Ishtar's assigned domain - see Sitchin's Wars of Gods and Men].

    Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008

  • But it turned out to be true -- just one of those peculiar quirks and back-eddies in events like the wolves and wildcats you still find in New York state, or those queer pre-Aryan peoples you come onto in small communities in the hills of Connaught and Galway.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • They dominated India society to such an extent that we now know almost nothing about the indige­nous, pre-Aryan civilization of the Indus valley.

    Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001

  • Its historical background, social organization, chivalry, mood and thought and its heroic ideal are to a large extent, and with perhaps some pre-Aryan survivals, not only those of the insular Celts of two thousand years ago, but also of the important and wide-spread Celtic race with whom Caesar fought and who in an earlier period had sacked Rome and made themselves feared even in Greece and Asia Minor.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • The pre-Aryan tribes had their own religious beliefs and practices, on which were superimposed those of the Aryans.

    India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

  • It is difficult, in the present state of knowledge, to discern clearly the contributions of different peoples to the traditional customs of Europe, and even, in many cases, to say whether a given custom is "Aryan" or pre-Aryan.

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

  • There are Sikhs, and Jains, and devil worshippers; among the Dravidian and other pre-Aryan tribes there are victims of every conceivable superstition.

    Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

  • It is a river into which have flowed tributaries from every side, from Oriental religion, from Greek and Roman civilization, from Celtic, Teutonic, Slav, and probably pre-Aryan, society, mingling their waters so that it is often hard to discover the far-away springs.

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

  • [28] The word "aboriginal" is used here for convenience and not as conveying any assertion as to the origin of the pre-Aryan population.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • This position he perhaps occupied as a representative of the pre-Aryan tribes, the oldest residents of the country, and his appointment may have also been partly based on the idea that it was proper to employ one of them as the guardian of the village lands, just as the priest of the village gods of the earth and fields was usually taken from these tribes.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

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