r/IndoEuropean • u/UnderstandingThin40 • 21d ago

Indo-European migrations New preprint claims that the Rigveda and Mittani/Hurrian song (hymn to Nikkal) have the same cadence and are from the same musical foundation

What do you guys think?

Paper: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202506.1669/v2

Not an expert but this seems like a stretch?

Also the author doesn’t seem to know that the Mitanni come from the steppe and not India, making him seem less credible.

The paper also in general doesn’t come off as professional.

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u/UnderstandingThin40 21d ago

We have linguistic and even dna evidence of it though (lady of the well sample). I’m sure they went through bmac and mixed with them but they originated in the steppe.

We’ve all heard the peacock seal and Indian / Syrian, the evidence if you can even call that is weak. Are you saying the Mitanni came from India ? There is 0 evidence of that.

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u/GlobalImportance5295 21d ago

There is 0 evidence of that.

there is also 0 evidence they came directly from the steppe

did the author say they actually came from india? i'm not even seeing what you are thinking the author claimed. i was merely assuming the author implied the Mitanni would have first migrated through the BMAC and either into India or had cultural ties with India before they migrated to Mitanni land. their direct origin pre-Syria / pre-Anatolia is literally uncertain

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u/UnderstandingThin40 21d ago

But we do have evidence for them coming from the steppe. We have dna samples from Syria exactly at the time of Mitanni with steppe Dna. We also have linguistic evidence too. 

They originated in the steppe and again I’m sure they went through bmac and were heavily influence by them, but there is no evidence they came from India.

I mean it’s not concrete where they are from but the evidence is stronger for one location than another. As I said we have linguistic and dna evidence. 

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u/Consistent_Jump9044 20d ago

You have a boner for BMAC. They didn't even control Merv, let alone the Silk Road. What language did the BMAC speak? Sanskrit? If so, they aren't from the Steppes.