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Btw There was no fire sacrificer priest-sage class like the Brahmins in Europe. Of what little I know about Germanic paganism there were Skalds and female figures known as the Volva which were seers and shamans. Indo-Aryan/Vedic religion had Brahmin, while the Persian Zoroastrians had the Magi firekeepers, but Skalds and Volvas did not take care of the sacred fire and the sacrifice to the gods in the place of the common people, again this is missing in Europe of a distinct fire sacrificer priest-sage class.

Castes developed much later in Indo-European religions compared to Indo-Iranian but the figure of the fire sacrificer priest-sage is conspicuously absent in Ancient Greece (Kerykes were exclusive to the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mystery religions are absent in non-Greco-Roman religions in Europe, they did not have a monopoly on sacred fire/sacrifice, anyone who was a citizen could do it in their own house to the household deities, like the Lares in Rome, and they did not even sacrifice the liquid they probably drank in the rituals, as far as we know). Maybe the Celtic Druids are the closest analogy but virtually nothing is known about them.

The idea of Brahman is absent from Indo-European religions as well as the very Indo-Iranian/Avestan religion. The Vedic religion is straightforward in that the cosmic wheel of reincarnation is bound by one principle of oneness and that is Brahman. It is a big difference in philosophical outlook, the European Indo-European branch of religion is pluralistic but the Vedic one is monist. Because all principles flow from one source and all reality as separation is ultimately ignorance, In the Avesta the line hardens between truth and lie (evil) and Zoroastrianism became dualist. This whole aspect however, if it even existed in Proto-Indo-European religion is entirely missing, and what exists instead is the world of only the true and vital.