Indo-European Poetry and Myth

swords
in couple’s bed 436–7
named 462
sharpness test 461–2

Tabiti 267
taboos
affecting names 134–5, 242, 244, 249 n. 39,
380
laid down for Brahman and Flamen 419
restricting urination 217
Tacitus on Germans 17, 67, 75, 140, 177,
197, 356–7, 376, 412, 448, 449, 459,
487, 497–8
on remoter peoples 190, 206
Táin bó Cúailnge 17, 452
Taliesin 17
Talos 445
Taranis 249
tarentum 389
Tarh
̆
unna 137, 247, 262
chariot drawn by bulls 224
Teichoskopia 438, 471–2
Telegonus 441
Tellus 175, 180, 182–3
Telyavelik 156
Terra Mater 175, 176, 180
Theban War 451, 472, 484, 492, 500
Theocritus on Helen’s wedding 235
‘there was a king’ 93–4
theriophoric names 450
Thetis 354, 355
Thieme, Paul 4, 394
Thiodolf 18
Thor 152, 249–51, 259, 263, 299, 444
recital of famous deeds 251, 316
weapon 253–4
Thracian, Thracians 6–7, 9, 15–16, 196, 206,
413, 493 n. 132, 500
Θrae ̄taona 260
‘three nights and three days’ 91
Þriði 260 n. 71
Θrita 260 n. 71
thunder-gods 238–63, 430
birth through ‘good place’ 247
feared by other gods 309
great eaters 246, 249, 250
hymns to 316
tawny beard 240, 242, 246, 250–1
weapons 240, 242, 248, 250, 251–5
thunderstones 252 n. 53, 255, 343
Thyestes motif 442–3
Tiberinus 137, 276, 321
Timotheus 76, 325

Tis ˇtrya 139–40, 257, 352

Titans 162–3

*Tı ̄waz (Germ.) 120 n. 1, 167 n. 8

Tı ̄waz (Luw.), Tı ̄yaz (Palaic) 168, 171, 172,

194

Tocharian 3, 7

versification 56

‘today will decide’ 476–7

‘tomorrow you will see’ 474–5

trees

cosmic 346–7

fire in 272–3

long-lived 378

men grow as 375–6

nymphs 284, 286–7, 289, 291

sacred 280

simile for immovable/felled hero 494–5

uprooted to make clubs 461

triads 117–19

Triads of the Isle of Britain 17, 360, 467

Triglav 300

Tr i s ́iras 262

Tristar 352–3

Trita A ̄ptya 260

Tritogeneia 260 n. 71

Tritopatores 395 n. 59

Trojan War 230, 232

Troy 204–5

Troyan 260 n. 71

Trundholm sun-disc 204, 209–10, 213, 374

Tuatha Dé Danann 143, 155–6, 159, 162, 164

Tuisto 357, 376

Tvas

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136, 142, 155–6

Twins, divine 186–91, 483

primeval Twin 356–9, 376–7

‘two-footed and four-footed’ 100, 368

Tydeus 492

Typhoeus, Typhaon 253, 257–8, 347

Týr 120 n. 1, 167 n. 8

Ullikummi 262–3, 445 n. 106

Ullr 146–7

underworld 388–93

Urð 382–3

urination taboos 217

Ursa Major 351–2

Us

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as, see Dawn goddess

Vahagn 199, 246–7, 271

Va ̄japeya ritual 214–15

vájra- 251–2

Váli 150, 459

Valkyries 382, 385, 463

Vanir 164

Index 523