Indo-European Poetry and Myth

Truncum quoque ligni non parvae magnitudinis in altum erectum sub divo colebant, patria eum lingua Irminsul appellantes, quod La ...

analogue to this in the Hesperides’ tree which grows golden apples, has a guardian serpent at its base, and is located close to ...

of Vishnu. At other times this S ́es ̇ a supports the earth (MBh. 1. 32. 20–4; 3. 10, 194. 9 f.; cf. 5. 101. 2 f.). The motif o ...

account for the winding course of the stream. In a lake or sea it might have been to account for the turbulence of the water by ...

forever and there is no satiety; where food and drink do not diminish when consumed; where to wish for something is to possess i ...

but if so it is surely the Milky Way conceived as a celestial river. The Milky Way was a conspicuous feature of pre-industrial s ...

reconciled on the assumption that ‘the Bears’ were a she-bear and her two or three young, and that the Greeks referred only to t ...

most brilliant of the three, would be Tristriyos, the Triangle Star. Meanwhile H. Fischer had argued that the Greek Σεριο coul ...

COSMOGONY This idea of the stars being added to the firmament as decoration implies a divine craftsman responsible for the creat ...

once was the earth born’; 2. 19. 3 ájanayat su ̄ ́riyam, ‘he [Indra] brought the sun to birth’; 2. 20. 7; 3. 31. 15; 10. 90. 9 f ...

There was not sand nor sea nor the cool waves; earth was nowhere nor heaven above; Ginnunga Gap there was, but grass nowhere. Be ...

concerning a divine figure Tuisto who grew out of the earth to become the father of Mannus, the ancestor of all the Germans. Tui ...

For Zarathushtra Yima was a sinner, the first to distribute portions of the cow for consumption (Y. 32. 8); in other words, the ...

myth in which the origin of man was bound up with the creation of the world from the body of a giant or proto-human killed and c ...

The one dog’s likeness is with eight: it behaves like a priest, it behaves like a warrior, it behaves like a cattle-farmer, [and ...

the questions and answers alternated. Elsewhere Zarathushtra does frame questions that receive answers from on high (29. 2–8), a ...

This motif is also at home in poetic contests. In the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Homer is challenged to answer the questions ‘wh ...

‘fjende-gave ingen gave’, ‘an enemy’s gift is no gift’.^66 But the Sophoclean line found its way into the Paroemiographers, and ...

often appear as serious tests upon which weighty consequences hang, even matters of life and death. It may be that a hero has to ...

comprehension. It is not surprising that we find stories of poets measuring themselves against one another in contests both of r ...