Talk:Ved-ava

Even if it has similar kind of name in different cultures, it is not the "same" mythological creature. Finnish veden emo is not the same person as mordvan one, the differences are too great. Tuohirulla puhu 21:06, 23 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

(a) please check out the reference linked (Britannica), and be aware of WP:CITE. (b) understand that we cannot have a separate entry on each spelling or variant of a concept. Sometimes we have articles that for practica purposes group items that are not necessarily "identical". --dab (𒁳) 12:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

The article says this is common to these mentioned groups. This is just not grouping for clarity, this is completely misleading. Unfortunately the sources that Britannica itself still use are mainly very confused sources of the latter part of 19th century, or based on those. There might not exist a straight refutal for these theories since they are thought to be historical curiosities. Still nothing, not even Britannica (if it really says so) can justify Wikipedia to call this a common deity of all these various, linquistically distantly related groups. This kinds of internationally shared and common gods exist mostly in rapidly spreading and influential religions such as the great world religions, not in folk beliefs of tribal societies that haven't had much in common in the past milleniums. Tuohirulla puhu 06:38, 14 September 2012 (UTC)Reply