Every region around the world has a version of the Fountain of Youth myth. The author is concerned as to the origin of the story. He concludes that India is the source of the fable.
Edward Hopkins discusses the reduplication in Vedic nouns that mirrors the sort of reduplication more commonly found in Indo-European verbs, and suggests verbal origins for such nouns.
Edward Hopkins here addresses and debunks the color theory, which assumes that ancient peoples were unable to perceive shades of green and blue because they lack vocabulary parallel to our own words for color.