• 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...
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    as suggested by Georges Dumézil, following hints in Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Another of Dumézil's theories is that...
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  • 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...
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    existed in Proto-Indo-European religion and mythology. First proposed by Georges Dumézil, he considered it to have been composed of two distinct elements –...
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    mythographer Georges Dumézil, who proposed it in 1929 in the book Flamen-Brahman, and later in Mitra-Varuna. According to Georges Dumézil (1898–1986),...
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    an enemy. Georges Dumézil theorized that Víðarr represents a cosmic figure from an archetype derived from the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Dumézil stated that...
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    (ISBN 978-2-84050-193-0, read online archive), p. 144-145. Dumézil 1984. (fr) Georges Dumézil, "Hérodote et l'intronisation de Darius", on L'oubli de l'Homme...
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    counterpart of Egeria. The name Egeria has been diversely interpreted. Georges Dumézil proposed it came from ē-gerere ("bear out"), suggesting an origin from...
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  • scholars (Alexander Afanasyev, Richard Heinzel, Jooseppi Julius Mikkola, Georges Dumézil, et al.), is motivated by the consideration of kvasir as a personification...
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     428–429. Puhvel 1987, pp. 15–18. Puhvel 1987, p. 15. Dumézil, Georges (1929). Flamen-Brahman. Dumézil 1986. Mallory & Adams 2006, pp. 429–430. West 2007...
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    p. 272.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Georges Dumézil (1974) La religion romaine archaïque Paris Payot 2nd; Italian translation...
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    of political power. The horse is "the quintessential war animal": Georges Dumézil associated it solely with the second Indo-European function, but this...
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    troop of young warriors. According to French comparative mythologist Georges Dumézil, they are cognate to the Einherjar and the Wild hunt. Hymn 66 of Mandala...
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    personalised gods of Roman religion must have preceded the city's foundation. Georges Dumézil regarded Jupiter, Juventas and Terminus as the Roman form of a proto-Indo-European...
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    CITEREFRebecca_R._Ongsotto,_Reena_R._Ongsotto,_Rowena_Maria_Ongsotto (help) Georges Dumézil (1996) [1966]. Archaic Roman Religion: Volume One. trans. Philip Krapp...
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    ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂u-n ('favourable'). Consequently, Georges Dumézil translated her name as "the Favourable." In his conceptual approach...
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    might be an adjectival form (-no) of *nuptu- ("he who is moist"). Georges Dumézil said that words deriving from the root *nep- are not attested in Indo-European...
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    among scholars. For example, influential philologist and folklorist Georges Dumézil, comparing motifs and clusters of motifs in western Europe, proposes...
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    heart." More recently, J. Nigro Sansonese, building on the work of Georges Dumézil, speculates that the origin of the name "Sisyphus" is onomatopoetic...
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  • 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...
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  • Etymologisches Worterbuch (1977 ed.). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-05436-3. Dumézil, Georges (1973). From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus. University of Chicago...
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    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...
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    concerning the deduction of colonies. It was of special interest to Georges Dumézil, according to whom the ver sacrum perpetuated prehistoric migration...
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    interpretation which found supporters until the 1980s. During the 1960s Georges Dumézil proposed a new line of thought in the interpreting of the text. He...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Cited by G. Dumézil above p. 71 ff. G Dumézil Déesses latines et mythes vediques Bruxelles 1956 chapt. 3. Ṛg-Veda X 72, 4-5; G. Dumézil above and Mariages...
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    Paschalis 1977, p. 78. Dumézil 1974, part 2, chap. 2 Benveniste 1969 (glottologist Émile Benveniste speaks on Georges Dumézil's theory) Beekes 2010, pp...
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    authority for the mela. This episode has been analyzed comparatively by Georges Dumézil, who dubiously connected it to various historical "Indo-European" facts...
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    culture and mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans by scholars such as Georges Dumézil, as well as by archaeology (e. g. Marija Gimbutas, Colin Renfrew) and...
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