Greetings, I'm sort of new to the yahoo groups. I recently joined the Rydberg list and I was told about this one. My name is Thomas Mether. I am a college...
Looks like you are a perfect addition to the list. I look forward to reading more about you and your work. -- B I have great respect for the truth. However I...
Thomas, Glad to see you made it over.... welcome. As I said, it tends to be fairly slow paced, but I think you'll find it worthwhile. -Aydan ... list and I was...
Thanks, two of the reasons I was drawn into philosophy more than IE studies (thus why I have a Ph.D in one and am just shy of a dissertation in the other) is...
Hello, Thanks for the welcome. Are you Lithuanian perchance? I'm not sure what is meant by your question about other lists? Do you have recommendations? ...
Thanks, I sent two replies to the list besides this one. Maybe one might stimulate some discussion. Of course, maybe some of the members really dwell in Yima's...
... Yes, I am Lithuanian :-) Just curious, w.r.t other lists. I know your interest lies in PIE studies primarily, but are you planning on looking at other...
Hello Marija, I have some Lithuanian ancestry on the eastern side of the family. Otherwise they are all German. Anyway, what do you mean by "ethnic"...
Greetings List, Â Coming from different perspectives and taking different approaches, there are five books on the paradigmatic sacrifice of the Twin (*yemo,...
On a happy note, I have finally updated my personal site whic contains various articles (in word doc or rtf format) on PIE and Teutonic religions. The site is...
... there are five books on the paradigmatic sacrifice of the Twin (*yemo, Yima, Yama, Tuisto, Ymir, Purusa-Prajapati) that _together_ help for a ... Very...
Hello group, Glad to have found this group! I've sent three images to the photo album "Linenthal." "Haoma" shows three stone columns of mine (and my cat) ,...
Hello, I am researching "hero" myths, such as Heracles, and was wondering if anyone could supply me with or point me in the direction of the earliest or...
I recommend Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. It's a cross-cultural study of hero myths. It would be a good place to start. Ceisiwr Serith ...
Pericles, Heracles, Krishna, Osiris... those are the earlies I can think of off the top of my head. There is little way to know for certain before written...
This post compares IE Vedic and Roman concepts as it pertains to IE ritual. Later, Zoroastrian ritual will be added with the objective to say something about...
The oldest Indo-European archtype for the hero is that of a dragon-slayer that sets the intended development of the world back on course. Look up Vrtra...
CeiSerith, with the lovely website, did you have an actual reply to this? ... From: CeiSerith@... <CeiSerith@...> Subject: Re: [PIEreligion] IE Ritual...
Sorry, leaned forward and hit a button. In a message dated 8/17/2008 6:31:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ... Indo-European linguistics that fas is cognate to...
... not saying that I should know everything, but I should know a lot more than I have here. That makes me hesitant to accept your data without some serious...
... slayer that sets ... (dragon) and Trita (with his divine partner Indra) nicknamed "Vrtahan" (slayer of Vrtra) in Vedic materials. You will find the same...
I am working up the biblio for this post. But here is one of the more recent books in the field that is much more extensive than what I posted here. ...
... couterpart. Aydan: Agreed in that some are human, but then Indra, Thor, Verethragna (the Yazata)are all deities who slay a correlate to Vrtra. Hence my...
