Indo-European Myth and Religion
Author : Roger Woodard
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780757512421
Author : Roger Woodard
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780757512421
Author : Gerald James Larson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520356535
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : M. L. West
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191565407
The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional mythologies, religions, and poetries, and points to elements of common heritage. In The East Face of Helicon (1997), West showed the extent to which Homeric and other early Greek poetry was influenced by Near Eastern traditions, mainly non-Indo-European. His new book presents a foil to that work by identifying elements of more ancient, Indo-European heritage in the Greek material. Topics covered include the status of poets and poetry in Indo-European societies; metre, style, and diction; gods and other supernatural beings, from Father Sky and Mother Earth to the Sun-god and his beautiful daughter, the Thunder-god and other elemental deities, and earthly orders such as Nymphs and Elves; the forms of hymns, prayers, and incantations; conceptions about the world, its origin, mankind, death, and fate; the ideology of fame and of immortalization through poetry; the typology of the king and the hero; the hero as warrior, and the conventions of battle narrative.
Author : Roger Woodard
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780757512247
Author : Roger Woodard
Publisher : Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780757534256
Author : Gerald James Larson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520340329
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : Stefan Arvidsson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226028607
Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, Aryan Idols demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and used for, various ideologies. Stefan Arvidsson traces the evolution of the Aryan idea through the nineteenth century—from its roots in Bible-based classifications and William Jones’s discovery of commonalities among Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek to its use by scholars in fields such as archaeology, anthropology, folklore, comparative religion, and history. Along the way, Arvidsson maps out the changing ways in which Aryans were imagined and relates such shifts to social, historical, and political processes. Considering the developments of the twentieth century, Arvidsson focuses on the adoption of Indo-European scholarship (or pseudoscholarship) by the Nazis and by Fascist Catholics. A wide-ranging discussion of the intellectual history of the past two centuries, Aryan Idols links the pervasive idea of the Indo-European people to major scientific, philosophical, and political developments of the times, while raising important questions about the nature of scholarship as well.
Author : ALEXANDER. JACOB
Publisher : Manticore Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2019-02-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780648499619
The essays presented in this collection are based on Alexander Jacob's earlier works, Ātman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans and Brahman: A Study of the Solar Rituals of the Indo-Europeans. They expand on the cosmological and religious themes in these books with reference to Indic & European spiritual traditions.
Author : Ceisiwr Serith
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Neopaganism
ISBN : 9780976568131
Through a combination of the linguistics of a reconstructed language, archaeology, and comparative mythology, Deep Ancestors breathes life into the ancient Proto-Indo-European culture and religion. Ceisiwr states "This book must be considered a report on a work in progress. As time goes by, new research will be done, new ideas and data presented, and old texts and archaeology reinterpreted. This will require changes in the beliefs and practices of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion. Consider this a process of progressive revelation, except that instead of coming from the gods it comes from scholars."
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107022401
This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among soldiers returning from war. Roger Woodard's research identifies a common origin of these myths in the ancestral proto-Indo-European culture, in which rites were enacted to enable warriors to reintegrate themselves as functional members of society. He also compares the Italic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic mythic traditions surrounding the warrior, paying particular attention to Roman myth and ritual, notably to the etiologies and rites of the July festivals of the Poplifugia and Nonae Caprotinae, and to the October rites of the Sororium Tigillum.