The hip is often surmounted, even today, by a decorative staff or Malljan, a device that echoes the mystical beliefs of earlier times.

There are strong linguistic and cultural similarities between the texts of the Avesta and those of the Rigveda; the similarities are assumed to reflect the common beliefs of Proto-Indo-Iranian times, with the differences then assumed to reflect independent evolution that occurred after the pre-historical split of the two cultures.

They are historical documents which reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times.

These two features very easily combine, and they agree in representing to us mysterious sympathy between tree and human-life, which, as a matter of fact, frequently manifests itself in recorded beliefs and customs of historical times.

These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times.

One belief of ancient times was that on St. Valentine's Day and Eve, a young girl would eventually marry the first eligible male she met on this day.