Hello, For your interest we have included below the `Abstracts' from: Mithras Readers: an academic and religious journal of Greek, Roman and Persian Studies....
Happy New Year all, as the wheel of the seasons keeps turning (albeit I ponder the state of the axle - it was almost 60 degrees in Vermont today) I thought I'd...
In a message dated 1/14/2007 2:10:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... particular, that it was dedicated to? In the Brahmanas, it's dedicated Prajapati, but it's...
... Mars? Ares? Frey? And what evidence is there to support such an association?? Thanks hugely, in advance! Your faithfully inquisitive nerd, -Aydan...
In a message dated 1/18/2007 8:51:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... No problem. I think I've mentioned this before, but the IE horse sacrifice is an...
So despite my attempt to set things aside, I've been plagued by thoughts of a very Dumezian triad (quad) of deities: Atmospheric, Earthly/Watery, Underworld ...
... Fine for the dedication of the horse to Prajapati in the Braahman.a texts, but its ealier dedication to Indra is disputable. It appears more likely that...
Dear List, I wish to integrate my previous post on the asvamedha with some details on IE horse sacrifices discussed in a book written by the anthropologist...
... Shortly after this point Ceisiwr reminded me to be more careful as I had mixed Gaulish and Irish deities together. Still.... I think the atmospheric and...
In a message dated 1/18/2007 8:58:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... Definitely Indra. Mars was, I'm convinced, originally the Roman Striker. He is connected...
In a message dated 1/26/2007 6:45:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... texts, but its ealier dedication to Indra is disputable. It appears more likely that the...
... Roman Striker. ... colleges ... thrown down from ... Interesting possibility. As you probably know, I see Indra more as Zeus/Herakles. Zeus in replacing...
As things have been rather quiet, I thought I'd just toss out the following idea: We all know the Interpretatio Romana made Tyr the quivalent of Mars, and...
i can't document it clearly, but it seems very likely that the gods of the Norse/Icelandic peoples as we have come to understand them through early literature...
... sacrifice ... material, and I See section 4 of the following link: http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/VMCI.pdf M. kelkar ... Berkeley. In ... ...
http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/en_index.html 'Diffusion of Indo-European Theonyms: what they show us' This paper was published in the Quarterly Journal of...
... The problem with this conclusion is that Sanskrit exists in a manner that few other early IE languages do. If written texts in Proto-Balto-Slavic, or...
This sort of hit me rather..err totally.. unexpectedly: 5 Celtic trees = 5 titans who castrate Ouranos (Sky). 4 brothers grab and hold Ouranos while Kronos...
NOW for the Celtic part (snipped from a file I wrote a number of months ago): A Celtic representation of the Cosmic Order is seen in their own version of the...
Taken from a looong discussion on Beliefnet from years ago www.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp? boardID=13978&discussionID=327731 "So… the primordial...
Hej Aydan, Here is an excerpt from my new book. It deals with comparative Indo-European mythology, examining and comparing the Rigveda, the Avesta, the Greek...
Hi I am Goce Janevski and I am calling from Macedonia I have been opserving your forum for a while,ang I hope that you wont mind mines "from time to time ...
Vedic and Mesopotamian Cross-influences. Published in Migration & Diffusion (Vienna) 2005 and after some minor revisions it was subsequently published by the...
Dear William Many thanks for all your help. I have done the order and now I am waiting for delivering Sincerely Homer "William P. Reaves" <wreaves@...>...
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