Indo-European Poetry and Myth

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Aστω Ζε3 172–3
Italic 10, 16
metres 50–1
iteration 106
Iuturna 288
Ixion 192–3


Jakobson, Roman 46, 134–5
Jamison, Stephanie 438
‘Japhetic’ 1
Jason and Pelias 419
Jones, Sir William 3 n. 6
jumping 214
Jupiter 166–7, 169, 170, 238–9
Dius Fidius 166, 172
Feretrius, Fulgur 248
various titles 136
with Tellus Mater 182–3
juxtaposition of like terms 111–16
of opposed terms 110–11


Kaineus 445, 464
Kassites 196
kennings 81–3, 272, 344
keraunos 252–3
(Zeus) Keraunos 243–4, 248
Kərəsa ̄spa 315
Kerkopes 295
κρυξ 29
Kielu Dziewos 283
Kim
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naras, Kim
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purus
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as 292–3
king, kings 411–25
as charioteer or helmsman 420–1
as father, herdsman, protector 421
claims divine descent 377
‘eats’ gifts, subjects 422
ideal qualities 421–5
justice 421–4
liberality 424–5
responsible for fertility 422–4
Kleone 403
Kobaloi 295
Kouretes 293, 294
Kr
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s ́a ̄nu 159
Kuhn, Adalbert 2–3, 273, 337–8, 406
Kulshedra 259
Kurdalagon, Kurd-Alä-Wärgon 155, 268
Kurus, Northern 349
Kyknos (Trojan) 444


Laestrygonians 298
Laima 384, 386
laments 65–6, 498–9
Lancelot 237, 411
Land of the Living 349–50


Latvia 18–19
Mothers 141, 269, 279
metres 55–6
law-codes 70–1
Lay of Igor 19
Lebor Gabála Érenn 17
Legendenzauber 336–7
Lemuria 329, 395
Leukippides 232, 235
Leviathan 348
lexical renewal 78–9
Liber, Libera 145
light = realm of living 87
brought by divine Twins 188
metaphor for salvation 482
light-footed heroes 426–7
lion similes 495
Litavi- 177
Lithuania 18–19, 141
metres 55
Lleu Llaw Gyffes 370
Logi 268
Loki 152, 153, 160, 268
Lombardic tradition 173
‘look on us’ 318
love’s arrow 88
Lug(us) 149, 152
Luristan bronzes 191
Luwian 7, 12–13
versification 57
lycanthropy 450
Lycian 13
nymphs 85
Lydian 13
metre 57
Lynceus 427 n. 57

Mabinogion 17
Mabon, Mapon 52–3, 483
McCone, Kim 412 n. 3, 436, 449, 451
mace 460–1
Ma ̄dhavı ̄ 416
magic, see spells
Magni 150
Maha ̄bha ̄rata 13
Maha ̄vrata festival 213
Makkay, János 21
maledictions 332–3
Manes, Lydian king 376 n. 5
mankind as terrestrial race 124–6, 176
as mortal 127–8
former men bigger and stronger 426
lifespan 377–8
origins 356–9, 375–7

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