Literary Discussions

Various languages have interesting words for their "people" and I remember in some languages that the word has a root meaning of "man/person" ... but the ancient language of the Zoroastrian Avestas (the Parsis) has a word for "people" which means (herders of livestock). At the end of the 3rd millenium B.C.E. (e.g. 2000 B.C.E.) a fair-skinned people in the steppes West of the Volga migrated down into Northern India and they were the ones who wrote the Vedas and had a bhaktic devotional form of religion. They had no permanent settlement but were wanderers so naturally they had no temple or structure.  The language of the Zoroastrian Avestas is closely related to the Sanskrit of the Vedas. Soma in Sanskrit = Haoma in the Avestas. Anyway, these dominant Vedic people whose religion was basically Bhakti devotional celebration (connected with Vishnu) merged with the meditative/ascetic darker skinned peoples of South India whose worship with meditative (Shiva).  But somehow, the transition from wandering bands of hunter/gatherers whose polity was a form of Anarchy (no-king) made the transition with the domestication of animals such as dog/horse/sheep to tribes of HERDERS/shepherds and finally to landed, stationary farmers/tillers of the soil and this transition led to the towns and cities and government and laws.