Tracking The Homeland of the Gods Through Mythology

Tracking The Homeland of the Gods Through Mythology is an attempt to trace the gods back to a common source — their homeland, and more importantly, original culture and people — using a number of methods to analyze, extract, and deduce from the legendary accounts.

There are a number of features of myth that can be used. When we have figures like Danu who is found in Vedic, Celtic, Greek (and other mythologies) described with relative consistency across cultures, this is evidence for a connection between these three traditions going back linearly in time. Presumably to a common source.

Vedic Homelands

The corpus of Vedic literature is perhaps the most important to note, because it is demonstrably the most ancient. While Irish traditions are probably more ancient than we give them credit for (though many scholars today incorrectly consider them young because of their date of recording, not composition) we know for certain that the Vedas as they are now are among the most ancient traditions of the world.

One of the mentions from Vedic Religion of a homeland for the gods, is in specific information of the location of the Danavas and the Daityas. (We discuss this topic more fully in the The Migrations of the Gods.)

According to Vedic tradition the devas exiled the danavas from Svarga, back during the Satya Yuga. According to accounts from these scriptures, the danavas took refuge in the Vindhya Range. [1] This gives us a location for both the Devas and the Danavas in the Himilayas.

The Tuatha De Danaan & the Homeland of the Gods

The ancient people that I refer collectively as the Dananns, are an excellent candidate to use in order to Tracking The Location of the Homeland of the Gods.

The Dananns feature in some form in all of the great Indo-European religions.

What this tells us is that this mythological element — the theme centered around the Folk of Danu —

Legendary Origins of the Greeks

The Greeks have a number of myths of origins. Discussing the origins of creation, the gods, and the Ancient Greek people themselves. One relevant myth concerns Danaus, one of the legendary founders of the Ancient Greeks.

Danaus was the son of on Egyptian king and a goddess (traces to Poseidon, and to Zeus — in more than one direction). His line continues to the princess Danae and her son Perseus, one of the greatest of the legendary Greek heroes.

Danaus’ influence was so great, that at the time of Homer, one of the most common names for the Greeks as a people was the Danaans — named after Danaus, and connecting all of the Greeks to Perseus, and many other famous figures from their ancestry.

Further Reading

Resources

1. Wikipedia Editors. Danavas (Hinduism). Wikipedia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danava_(Hinduism)> Accessed 9 June 2024.