Indo-European Poetry and Myth

In Greek the old Indo-European words had both given way to alternative vocables, but ‘gods and men’ (θεο τε κα? qνρε, etc.) i ...

Characteristics of divinity Despite the occasional myth of a god such as Baldr who was killed, it is a basic feature of the gods ...

dialecton ̇k, in B en ̇kwe, is held to derive from *n ̊ ku -ó- ‘subject to death, mortal’.^26 Readers of Homer will remember th ...

Gods often have many names and titles. ‘Many-named’ (purun ̇ a ̄ ́man-, πολυ.νυμο) in fact appears as a divine epithet in both ...

Ahurahe Mazdå ... mazisˇtaheca vahisˇtaheca srae ̄sˇtaheca xraozˇdisˇtaheca xraθβisˇtaheca hukərəptəmaheca asˇ ̇ a ̄t ̃ apano ̄t ...

The relationship of god to people was expressed using terms taken from the human world: king, father, herdsman. In the Rigveda g ...

Gods are givers. We saw at the beginning of the chapter that a word mean- ing ‘dispenser’ became the common term for ‘god’ in Ir ...

what they were and who impressed them with his goodness and piety, or his lack of it. In Nordic mythology Odin goes about simila ...

Animals such as dogs are better than humans at sensing the presence of gods and spirits.^51 But a human being may be temporarily ...

that ‘a rigorous, pedantic application of current phonetic and grammatical rules to such a highly specialized field of language ...

speakingfigure, he becomes masculine (Y. 28. 5, 29. 3, etc.). In Greek the god of war and destruction, Ares, is a masculine rela ...

Many gods’ names contain the suffix -nos or (feminine) -neh 2 > -na ̄. They include deities attested in the second millennium ...

πο ́ σι, and in the Maha ̄bha ̄rata we find titles such as Uma ̄pati ‘husband of Uma ̄’= Rudra (5. 49. 24), S ́acı ̄pati ‘husba ...

of chromosomes. In Indo-European theology, however, it would seem that goddesses played only a minor part. In those areas where ...

Tis ˇtryae ̄nı ̄s, who represent the lesser stars surrounding him. In the Pylos tablets there are both Poseidaon and Posidaeia, ...

meet the Umbrian Cubra Mater and the Roman Mater Matuta, Mater Mursina, Luna Mater, Stata Mater, Iuno Mater, etc.^73 Celtic and ...

There are two ways of hunting them. If possible, we find names in different branches of the tradition that appear to correspond ...

it seems to denote the wider tribal network or alliance. In a famous prayer that perhaps goes back to the prophet’s time Airyama ...

by being given the masculine (or animate) form, here the neuter plural vásu ̄ni that the gods bestow are transformed into the ma ...

digamma in dialect inscriptions where it would be expected.^83 The name may relate to a root wes‘burn’, seen in Old High German ...