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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 2424589" data-attributes="member: 5990">Many scholars interpret Vedic texts in that way, but - and I have a similar criticism of the ubiquitous "flood" theories - wars and invasions aren't exactly a rare phenomenon, so I think it's a big jump to say that this mythological war or that mythological war must be a reflection of the precise war in which IE speakers conquered non-IE speakers in some particular region. If history is any guide, most cultures could expect at least a couple major conflicts every generation. Sure, maybe the Titanomachia reflects the war of the "Aryan" Oympians versus the "Pelasgian" Titans, but maybe it represents the war of one "Aryan" tribe against another (e.g. Dorians vs. Ionians), or between two factions of a tribe, or between two Pelasgian tribes, or between Greeks and Phoenicians, or maybe it's just a metaphor for the conquest of nature by man, or maybe it was just a good yarn. Who knows? It's pretty thin basis for interpreting word distributions, potshards, and postholes, if you ask me. It makes for good  books, but objectively such readings of mythology aren't much for real evidence.Eh, shouldn't take too much googling to find. One...<a href="http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/wild_bunch/wildbunch6.html" target="_blank">http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/wild_bunch/wildbunch6.html</a></blockquote>