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It is assumed that these gods developed in different ways as cultures separated and evolved. Thus, a god such as the Vedic Mitra appears in Persian form as Mithra and then later develops into the Roman Mithras. Because Aryan texts are the oldest surviving evidence of early Indo-European speaking peoples it was assumed during the nineteenth century that they preserved aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture, before the dispersal of the Indo-European peoples across Europe and Asia. It was thus thought that Aryan gods could be linked to CelticLike other Iron Age Europeans, the Celts were a polytheistic people prior to their conversion to (Celtic) Christianity. Few of their myths have survived intact, but Celtic mythology has nevertheless influenced modern European civilisation. Celtic mytholog, NorseArdre image stones from Gotland, ca. 750 AD Norse mythology Viking mythology or Scandinavian mythology refer to the pre- Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people. It is the best-known version of the ancient Germanic mythology, wh, GreekGreek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are either transcriptions of this spoken word, o and Roman mythology. Many ethnologistsEthnology is a genre of anthropological study, involving the systematic comparison of the beliefs and practices of different societies. Among its goals are the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of laws of culture and culture change, and hoped to unify all the paganPaganism (or Heathenism ) is a catch-all term which has come to bundle together (by extension from its original classical meaning of a non- Christian religion) a very broad set of not necessarily compatible religious beliefs and practices that are usually European mythologies into a primeval Aryan belief system.

Many such thinkers believed that all the Aryan mythical systems began as forms of sun worshipPeople have worshiped the Sun and deities who represent the Sun for all of recorded history. Hence, many beliefs and legends have been formed around this worship. Sun deities are generally (though not always) male, and usually the brother, father, husband. Such ideas, now largely neglected, influenced the emergence of New AgeNew Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. This New Age movement is particularly concerned with spiritual exploration, holistic medicine, and mysticism, yet no rigid boundaries actually exist thinking about myth, and theories such as Jung's notion of a collective unconscious.

See also: Georges Dumézil