Indo-European Poetry and Myth

parents. At the same time (as with Zeus) certain individual deities are called his progeny. They are generally gods that have a ...

and Latvian songs.^74 The common features are clear and the inference obvious. Three separate poetic traditions have preserved i ...

formulaic epithet Tππο ́ δαμο ‘horse-taming’, and in the two Homeric Hymns addressed to the Dioskouroi they are ταχων $πιβτορ ...

saved Bhujyu from drowning when he was abandoned in the sea at the ends of the earth (1. 116. 3–5, 117. 14 f., 119. 4, 8, 182. 5 ...

Dioskouroi’.^80 There are also the famous Siamese twins Kteatos and Eurytos, the Molione: they too are λε3κιπποι κο ́ ροι, ‘whit ...

There are many artistic representations of twinned figures who might be interpreted as Dioskouric. They come from diverse countr ...

specific god, it is one connected with earthly fertility, like Dionysus the son of Zeus and Semele, or Persephone the daugher of ...

(now interpreted as the sun) took the form of a horse and pursued her, and it was then that she conceived.^92 Common to the Indi ...

5 Sun and Daughter THE DIVINE SUN The words for ‘sun’ in nearly all branches of the Indo-European family, or at least of MIE, ar ...

On the other hand, there is a Luwian neuter noun written sˇe-h ̆ u-wa-a-a[l] orsˇi-wa-al; it denotes a source of artificial illu ...

gender prevails: Baltic saule, Germanic *sunno ̄n and derivatives, Old Norse sól, and Irish súil‘eye’, which is generally though ...

(Soph. fr. 582), or more vaguely ‘the barbarians’ (Ar. Pax 406–11). At Rome the cult of the Sun was regarded as native to the Sa ...

The literary testimony to the Sun’s divine status may be supplemented by the evidence of prehistoric art. Starting from the thir ...

We need not confine ourselves entirely to Graeco-Aryan. In the Old English poem Phoenix (210 f.) the sun ‘performs its appointed ...

root for root into Greek: δκα =Ηλιο ο1 μιν3θει προδεκτου, and the idea in fact recurs in the early Greek philosophers. Hera ...

Oaths by the Sun and Moon, Sun and Wind, etc., are also mentioned in Old Irish literature.^22 THE SUN’S MOTION CONCEPTUALIZED Sa ...

and 16. 5 hverfandi hvél‘the roaming wheel’ is given as a name for the moon, andfagrahvél‘the beautiful wheel’ for the sun. The ...

over a large, upright eight-spoked wheel with a milled edge.^29 On certain early coins from Latium and Campania we find the devi ...

bronze razors from different sites in Denmark.^35 In all of the above except the Kalleby carving the horse is facing to the righ ...

that the animal–sun–bird sequence was repeated in reverse on the lost half of the diadem.^38 Among the many crudely decorated sp ...