Indo-European Poetry and Myth

chariots drawn by equids.^42 Later Iranian ideology may be reflected in Xenophon’s account of a procession of Cyrus in which the ...

171–3), or grey (179), or brown (124). Slavonic folk traditions tell of a golden car and two white horses, or three (gold, silve ...

taken as just landing in it or taking off from it. Such an interpretation seems irresistible in the case of two of the bronze ra ...

Stesichorus and others called it a δπα, ‘goblet’. Vase painters from the late sixth century onward show Helios in it with his ...

side, with concentric circles and spirals; it only lacks the outer ring of radial lines that encircles the gold side and suggest ...

kind is not exclusively Indo-European.^55 But where the horse or team of horses is found in connection with the sun in non-Indo- ...

A simile in the Iliad implies that Sirius shines brightest when he comes up λελουμνο ,Ωκεανο4ο, ‘washed in Oceanus’ (5. 6). An ...

Solar festivals, accordingly, are in general of a calendrical nature, cele- brating significant dates such as the first day of s ...

wife.^65 Here the ritual swinging performed by mortal girls is put in direct contact with the cosmic swinging of the Sun. Hoppin ...

the sun’. At the top he took hold of the cake and said ‘We have reached the sun, O gods!’ Among some of the western Slavs in Upp ...

There is one medieval Nordic allusion to the practice: Sólarlióð 41, ‘I saw the Sun; it seemed to me as if I saw the magnificent ...

A taboo μηδ, Eντ, (ελου τετραμμνο %ρθ: %μεχειν. And do not urinate upright facing the sun. (Hes. Op. 727) The prohibition o ...

High German, Ôstarmânôth, Ôst(a)rûn, it has been inferred that the goddess too was once recognized in southern German lands.^81 ...

The As ́vins are asked to come with the chariot yásya yóge duhita ̄ ́ ja ̄ ́yate Diváh ̇ , ‘at whose harnessing the daughter of ...

light of much-seeing Dawn’. The adjective may mean that Dawn herself sees far and wide, like the Sun-god, or that she enables mu ...

cf. 1. 113. 7); the Dawns spread out their lovely garments to the wind (1. 134. 4). In Homer Dawn is called κροκο ́ πεπλο, ‘saf ...

66). Saule too has a house; by its doors may be seen the horses of the Son(s) of God, who court Saule’s daughter (LD 33801, 3400 ...

stood in the doorway of the house at sunrise with one foot on either side of the threshold. As for the two sisters who never mee ...

the same when it is said that ‘Su ̄ rya with his rays has driven forth the cattle’ (7. 36. 1, cf. 81. 2), though it could be rea ...

‘Both races’ means gods and men. We can hardly fail to be reminded of the Homeric lines: Dawn from her bed, from beside glorious ...