Potnia 138
Aswia ̄ 146 n. 86
Ikkweia ̄ 145–6
Potrimpo 278–9
‘pour’ prayers, hymns, etc. 90–1
praise poetry 63–8
prayers, formal features 61, 102–3, 323–5
preverb repeated without verb 109
priamel 116–17
priests 419–20
Prije, *Priya ̄ 144
προ ́ βατα 101
Prometheus 273–4
prose, stylized 61
πεζο ́ 43
prosimetrum 61–2
prosody 46–7
proverbs 359, 362–3
Proverbs of Alfred 71
Pr
̇
thivı ̄ 174, 176, 181, 184
Puhvel, Jaan 4, 418
π3ργο 453
Puru ̄ ravas and Urvas ́ı ̄ 284–5
Purusha 357
Pu ̄s
̇
an 281–3, 302–3
Pythagoreans 361
Python 258, 347
queen 414–17
questions
by poet 94–5, 307
by hero meeting someone 431
question and answer form (catechism)
360–2
questioner’s suggestions negated in turn
107–8
race (breed) of gods/men/Giants 126
races (running) 434, 436
horse races 502
rain
as Dyeus’ seed 181–2, 184
as Parjanya’s seed 244–5
of arrows 83, 480
of blood 488
of Dyeus 169
Ra ̄ma 421, 423, 472, 485, 494, 495
Ra ̄ma ̄yan ̇a 13
Rasa ̄ 261
Rauhin
̇
a 164
ravens 149
R
̇
bhus 155–6, 297
reciprocal relationship, expression of 113–14
relative pronoun in anaphora 308–9
Remus 357, 377
repetition 106
Rhegia, Rhegium 413
Rhesos, Rhesion 413
rhetorical language 61
Rhine 274, 277–8
riddles 73–4, 185, 223, 240, 359, 363–72
Rigveda 13, 29
metres 47–9
metrical terminology 59–60
ring-dances 214, 235
rings, typical royal gift 425
Rishis 29, 30
Ritona Pritona 137
rivers, river gods 274–9
bounding land of dead 389–91
celestial 350–1
invocations to 321
prophecy from eddies 383
roads, gods of 282–3
Rome’s secret name 129
Romulus 357, 377
roots of earth/sea 347
Rosmerta 381 n. 19
Rozˇanicy, Rozˇdenicy 384–5
Rudra 148, 150
rusalky 291Sa ̄dhyas 162
saeculum 378
Salih Ugljanin 35, 91 n. 55
Salme 231, 236
Samain 395
sand, countless as 95–6
Sappho 49, 99, 104
Saran
̇
yu ̄ 192–3, 231
Sarpedon 443, 488, 489
Sassountsy David 15
satem languages 6
Saturnian metre 51–2
Satyrs 293
Saule 199, 211, 221, 222
Saules meita, Sáule ̇s dukrýte ̇ 228–9, 235
Savitr
̇
136, 196
Saxo Grammaticus 18
Scandinavian Bronze Age art 88 n. 41, 191,
203–4, 207–8, 210, 213, 220, 348, 418
Schlerath, Bernfried 4
Schmidt, Volkmar 273
Schmitt, Rüdiger 4
Scyld 390, 496
Scythians, see Herodotus
‘Scythian’ proto-language 1
sea nymphs 286, 292Index 521