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Kevin,

Thanks a lot but sorry if I can't comment too much on the book you are reading except the possibility of certain patterns in ancient legends etc (Graves comes to mind here) regarding two things:

First, the fact that at some stage climate change forced vast numbers of people to move from an area around north of the Black Sea / Ukraine.

Second, the enormous expansion by these warrior tribes all over Europe.

In this case, it would correspond with one of the hypothetical Indoeuropean homelands. The fact that the name Celtic is used all over may be a common tendency in books of that time, along with other funny names like Aryans, Caucasians, etc etc

Things like the Flood may also be legendary residues from the time of the early Mesolithic, when the ice melted all over the place and the levels rose. All heavy events have been surely recorded in the folk memory of the ancients and been transformed into epics and the like.


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