On: A historian's critique of popular conceptions of w...

[JulianMorrison]

And reconstruction is about 50-50, because they do their best but archeology honestly doesn't know the answers.

[z3phyr → JulianMorrison]

I have a strong opinion that Indo-European polythiestic religions have a common mythical and structural framework. So it would be easier to revive any of them by studying and borrowing back from the vast sample of such religions

[JulianMorrison → z3phyr]

They have commonality of roots but they barely resemble each other.

To give an example, Dis Pater, Jupiter, Deus, Zeus, and possibly Tiw are variations of the same name and identity after many centuries of divergence.