Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction

Agnicayana Aitareya alloforms Anaxagoras ancient anthropogony Atharva Veda attested Avesta become blood bodily body bones bovine Brāhmaṇa breath cattle Chapter charm common considered cosmic cosmogonic cosmos created creation cures death denote described Deukalion Dian Cecht dismembered dismemberment Druids earth elements Empedokles Enoch etym Wb eyes figure fire Flamen Dialis flesh fluids fragment Georges Dumézil Germania Germanic gods grass Greater Bundahišn Greek Grímnismál Gylfaginning healing heaven Herminones homology human Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indogermanisches Iranian Irish Jaan Puhvel king ladanum Latin libation limbs marrow material matter Miach moon myth mythic nails nutrition Ohrmazd origin ORuss Pahl passage Peri plants Prajapati priests primordial Purușa Puruṣasūkta re-creation Religion restore resurrection ritual sacrifice semen Semnones sinew sitiogony skin sociogonic soul sources stone Suebi theme tradition Truly Tuisto universe Upanisad variants Veda veins verb warriors whereby wind Zoroastrian