and Indo-European studies. Georges Dumézil was born in Paris, France, on 4 March 1898, the son of Jean Anatole Jean Dumézil and Marguerite Dutier. His... 61 KB (6,023 words) - 08:45, 11 April 2024 |
as suggested by Georges Dumézil, following hints in Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Another of Dumézil's theories is that... 41 KB (4,146 words) - 04:11, 19 April 2024 |
also the title of a 1940 essay in Proto-Indo-European mythology by Georges Dumézil. Mitra (Vedic) Varuna S.S Gupta (2013). A Study of Deities of Rig Veda... 1 KB (95 words) - 12:28, 12 January 2024 |
mythographer Georges Dumézil, who proposed it in 1929 in the book Flamen-Brahman, and later in Mitra-Varuna. According to Georges Dumézil (1898–1986),... 15 KB (1,215 words) - 06:33, 28 April 2024 |
an enemy. Georges Dumézil theorized that Víðarr represents a cosmic figure from an archetype derived from the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Dumézil stated that... 12 KB (1,505 words) - 07:11, 27 April 2024 |
scholars (Alexander Afanasyev, Richard Heinzel, Jooseppi Julius Mikkola, Georges Dumézil, et al.), is motivated by the consideration of kvasir as a personification... 13 KB (1,678 words) - 01:32, 9 February 2024 |
Harðgreipr (section Georges Dumézil's interpretation) initiation into one of Odin's realms, necromancy. In The Saga of Hadingus, Georges Dumézil tries to demonstrate that the legend of Hadingus shows many similarities... 7 KB (943 words) - 23:34, 5 February 2024 |
of political power. The horse is "the quintessential war animal": Georges Dumézil associated it solely with the second Indo-European function, but this... 111 KB (13,051 words) - 18:21, 26 April 2024 |
ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂u-n ('favourable'). Consequently, Georges Dumézil translated her name as "the Favourable." In his conceptual approach... 5 KB (654 words) - 15:22, 3 July 2023 |
among scholars. For example, influential philologist and folklorist Georges Dumézil, comparing motifs and clusters of motifs in western Europe, proposes... 31 KB (3,590 words) - 09:53, 4 April 2024 |
heart." More recently, J. Nigro Sansonese, building on the work of Georges Dumézil, speculates that the origin of the name "Sisyphus" is onomatopoetic... 22 KB (2,339 words) - 21:14, 1 April 2024 |
represent a divine duality of wild and taming forces similar to (by Georges Dumézil, et al.) in Indo-European chief god-pairs like Odin–Týr and Mitra–Varuna... 4 KB (493 words) - 01:14, 19 November 2023 |
concerning the deduction of colonies. It was of special interest to Georges Dumézil, according to whom the ver sacrum perpetuated prehistoric migration... 10 KB (1,265 words) - 01:43, 7 June 2023 |
His history is given in more detail than those of his predecessors. Georges Dumézil argued that Gram was partially modelled on the god Thor, in particular... 2 KB (170 words) - 03:08, 19 January 2023 |
associated with water. Furrina was a goddess of springs. According to Georges Dumézil, her name was related to the moving or bubbling of water. It is cognate... 3 KB (449 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023 |
been proposed as an analogy of the invasion of the Indo-Europeans. Georges Dumézil stated that the war need not necessarily be understood in terms of... 13 KB (1,613 words) - 05:20, 17 March 2023 |
Paschalis 1977, p. 78. Dumézil 1974, part 2, chap. 2 Benveniste 1969 (glottologist Émile Benveniste speaks on Georges Dumézil's theory) Beekes 2010, pp... 38 KB (4,763 words) - 02:11, 15 March 2024 |