Mallory on Irish Mythology as Material Culture Record

“J.P. Mallory (greatest living Indo-European linguist and Indo-European archaeologist) has shown beyond all reasonable doubt that: The stage settings and material culture (technology, building types, chariots, weapons, kitchen ware, roadways, geographies, etc.) in Irish mythology (Europe’s oldest vernacular literature)… is, almost wholly, representative of the era in which the mythology was first written down.”

Source: Expanding Mental Models · (Meta-Power of Mana 1)

Mallory’s work validates mythology as historical record. Irish mythology (Europe’s oldest vernacular literature) preserves material culture from the era of its composition.

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