A READER IN COMPARATIVE INDO-EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGY

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primis et venerem et proelia destinat; frustra: nam gelidos inficiet tibi rubro sanguine rivos lascivi suboles gregis. te flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae nescit tangere, tu frigus amabile fessis vomere tauris praebes et pecori vago. fies nobilium tu quoque fontium me dicente cavis inpositam ilicem saxis, unde loquaces lymphae desiliunt tuae. Bandusia's fount, in clearness crystalline, O worthy of the wine, the flowers we vow! Tomorrow shall be thine A kid, whose crescent brow Is sprouting all for love and victory. In vain: his warm red blood, so early stirr'd. Thy gelid stream shall dye, Child of the wanton herd. Thee the fierce Sirian star, to madness fired, Forbears to touch: sweet cool thy waters yield To ox with ploughing tired, And lazy sheep afield. Thou too one day shalt win proud eminence 'Mid honour'd founts, while I the ilex sing Crowning the cavern, whence Thy babbling wavelets spring. (Translated by John Conington, 1882)
4. Tabulae Iguvinae VI a: This rite shall start with the observation of the birds parfa (?owl), the horned one, dersua woodpecker, peica, merstu He who will go to observe the messages (of birds) should, sitting at the tremno ask the priest (arfertur): Ascertain that I am observing the owl, the dersua, the horned one dersua the woodpecker merso the peica mersta mersta birds mersta divine messengers. The arfertur ascertains in his answer: There you should observe the owl, the dersua, the horned one dersua
Page 1 and 2: 2010 A READER IN COMPARATIVE INDO-E
Page 3 and 4: GOD PART I: ELEMENTS OF PROTO-INDO-
Page 5 and 6: PIE *yewos- „divine rule“ > Lat
Page 7 and 8: common term for a priest, cf. also
Page 9 and 10: the sense of the phrase *k'red-d h
Page 11 and 12: „earth“. Other deities that bel
Page 13 and 14: kings), and her name contains the s
Page 15 and 16: Neptūnus is plausibly derived from
Page 17 and 18: PART II. A SELECTION OF TEXTS HITTI
Page 19 and 20: papratar) can spoil any ceremony, a
Page 21 and 22: Thus speaks the priest Kilas of the
Page 23 and 24: 6 the woods in the oven were smothe
Page 25 and 26: The Vedic hymns are composed in a v
Page 27 and 28: (Varuna, Bhaga, Aryaman, and others
Page 29 and 30: vy uch duhitar divah | saha dyumnen
Page 31 and 32: etvn asya mahim- -ato jyyms ca prus
Page 33 and 34: daēvas simbolize all that is bad a
Page 35: Thereupon the fashioner of the cow
Page 38 and 39: e.g. grains, olive oil, wine and sp
Page 40 and 41: folk etymology. Finally, the name o
Page 42 and 43: κὤττι μοι μάλιστα
Page 44 and 45: Chorus With water and honey; but ad
Page 46 and 47: outside Rome. Ordinary people had t
Page 48 and 49: „food, provisions“, cf. Lith. p
Page 52 and 53: the woodpecker merso the peica mers
Page 54 and 55: perhaps comparable to W Rhiannon <
Page 56 and 57: This is the voyage of Connlae, the
Page 58 and 59: GERMANIC Our first written source f
Page 60 and 61: apud plebem, sed apud proceres, apu
Page 62 and 63: 3. The Poetic Edda. Völuspá 1-7.
Page 64 and 65: Then Wodan addressed him, so as he
Page 66 and 67: ARMENIAN The pre-Christian Armenian
Page 68 and 69: The goddesses seem to have been sca
Page 70 and 71: 3. A Byelorussian charm „This is
Page 72 and 73: BALTIC Baltic peoples were among th
Page 74 and 75: ILLUSTRATIONS A HITTITE GOD A PROCE
Page 76 and 77: VARUNA AGNI
Page 78 and 79: ORPHEUS
Page 80 and 81: OKEANOS (FROM A GREEK VASE) THE SUO
Page 82 and 83: CALENDER FROM COLIGNY (ARCHAEOLOGIC
Page 84 and 85: A PAGAN SLAVIC IDOL
Page 86 and 87: Humbach, H. The Gāthās of Zarathu
Page 88: ABBREVIATIONS TEXTS: AV = Atharva-V

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