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THE NIGHT OF THE GODS 65
home. But fortunately for us our edifice need not be erected on this
solitary pillar, as there is, ample evidence in the Vedic literature
which supports the Arctic theory by satisfying almost all the Polar
and Circum-Polar tests laid down in the last chapter. The long
revolving dawn is another peculiar characteristic of the North Pole
and we shall see in the next chapter that the ~ig-Vedic account of
the dawn is intelligible only if we take it aneferring to the Polar
dawn.
AS
