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Proto-Indo-European religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The main functionaries of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European religion would have been maintained by a class of priests or shamans. The various Indo-European daughter-cultures continued elements of the hypothesized PIE religion, syncretizing it with innovations and foreign elements, notably Ancient Near Eastern elements, the reforms of Zoroaster and Buddha, and the spread of Christianity and Islam. This hypothetical religion would have been the ancestor of the majority of the religions of pre-Christian Europe, of the Dharmic religions in India, and of Zoroastrianism in Iran. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion   (1169 words)

Proto-Indo-Europeans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The scholarly opinions became basically divided between a European hypothesis, positing migration from Europe to Asia, and an Asian hypothesis, holding that the migration took place in the opposite direction. They practiced a polytheistic religion centered on sacrificial rites, probably administered by a priestly caste. It must be understood as a military victory in terms of imposing a new administrative system, language and religion upon the indigenous groups. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans   (1724 words)

ooBdoo Millions of Europeans profess no religion or are atheistic or agnostic. European integration has been a theme in European relations since the end of the second World War and has spread to Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. Other important European carnivores are Eurasian lynx, European wild cat, foxes (especially the red fox), jackal and different species of martens, hedgehogs, different species of snakes (vipers, grass snake...), different birds (owls, hawks and other birds of prey). www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Europe   (4011 words)

Indo-European Culture In this she contrasts with the Indo-European Earth-Mother, who is the impalpable sacred earth-spirit and is not in herself a creative principle; only through the interaction of the male sky-god does she become pregnant." (Marija Gimbutas (1974) The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe. In European folk beliefs, she still moves within pregnant women in the shape of a wandering uterus or a toad. The change of social structure, religion, and economy was not a gradual indigenous development from Old Europe, but a collision and gradual hybridization of two societies and of two ideologies." (Gimbutas, Marija (1991) The Civilization of the Goddess. www.humanevolution.net /a/indo-european.html   (5410 words)

YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Dyeus As the pantheons of the individual mythologies related to the Proto-Indo-European religion evolved, attributes of Dyeus were sometimes redistributed to other, newer gods. In Greek and Roman mythology, Dyeus remained the chief god, while in Vedic and Germanic mythology, the etymological continuants of Dyeus became pale, rather featureless gods, and his original attributes, and his dominance over other gods, were transferred to gods whose names cannot be reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European times, such as Odin, Thor or Indra. In his aspect as a Father God, his consort was Pltvi Mhter, "Earth Mother". www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Dyeus   (238 words)

Thesis.doc As a daughter religion of Proto-Indo-European religion, which strongly held to its original roots, the Germanic religion is a mere reflection of the Germanic society of that period. Within the Proto-Indo-European religion, his function served as a god of the first tier as the sovereign power of magic, but he also was the god of the spear. Freya’s connections to the sow (an Old European fertility symbol) and her roles as mistress of animals (another Old European symbol) - which several poems speak of her bestiality — are further proof of her connection to the Old European religion. www.jgmf.org /thor/schrift/papers/thesis/Thesis.doc   (21640 words)

Numbers, numerals and count in Indo-European: an article by Cyril Babaev This was the matter of a dialect which existed within the Proto-Indo-European language community, but the stem was the same. The stem *oi- evidently meant "single", "the only", but could rarely exist just as it was, it usually added a suffix: thus, *oi-k-os existed in Indo-Iranian (Sanskrit eka, Kurdish yak), *oi-n-os was developed in most European languages (like Greek en, Latin unus), and some languages had the form derived from *oi-w-os (for instance, Avestan aeva). Many features of the language were connected with the religion or mythology, with the understanding of the world which existed at the time. indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/article12.html   (2216 words)

Recommended Book List The author's portrayal of the religion of the Druids and their function in the Celtic society is an interesting interpretation, and while some might argue with it, it remains a perfectly plausible view, well-presented and readily understandable to a modern reader, whatever his religious background may be. This is due to the fact that her presentation is always given towards discerning patterns, and she makes liberal use of comparisons between Norse pagan religions and related cultural groups, such as the Celts, the Balts, the Slavs, and even the Greeks and Romans. Comparative Religion: Works that focus on relationships, patterns, and comparisons between various religious traditions. www.tuathadebrighid.org /recbook.htm   (3834 words)

(23) The deliberate speculation of the term Proto-Indo-European language; and Sanskrit morphology. But still, these 18th and 19th century linguists created a term ‘Proto-Indo-European’ for the original parent language which was assumed to be spoken about 5,000 years ago by the nomads who assumingly roamed around near the southeast European plains. (This will be elaborated in articles 32, 33) Now we should know that apart from the Sanskrit language there is no such thing as Proto-Indo-European language as it is self-evident from the findings of Sanskrit apbhransh words in all the existing Asian and European languages. They further assumed that from the speech of those earlier nomads came the languages of the world like Greek, Latin, Slavic, Russian, Germanic and Indo-Iranian etc., whereas the Sanskrit language came from the Indo-Iranian group. encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/23_the_speculation_of.htm   (809 words)

european religion Information and Resources - God Has A Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu useful, is not the be-all and end-all of Indo-European religion. Inaugurated in 1994, the John Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year Award is conferred to a journalist for excellence, enterprise and versatility in... European peoples, indicates that whatever population they actually formed had some form of polytheistic religion that... www.godhasadream.com /religion/european-religion   (625 words)

Chthonic and Indo-European Elements Though theorising, I suspect that it is a battle that rages between the Old European, Chthonic pantheon and that of the Sky deities of the Indo-Europeans. The religion was not a state religion, but varied from region to region and from tribe to tribe. Typically, Old European goddesses were relegated to the third function, prosperity or fertility, and thus became grouped as "lowest gods". www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/3503/lecture98.html   (2517 words)

Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000       A curious byproduct of the age of colonialism and mercantilism was the introduction of Sanskrit in the 18th century to European intellectuals and scholars long familiar with Latin and Greek and with the European languages of culture — Romance, Germanic, and Slavic. Other disciplines serve to fill out and complete the picture to be gathered from the study of vocabulary: archaeology, prehistory, comparative religion, and the history of institutions. To form an idea of the religion of a people, archaeologists proceed by inference, examining temples, sanctuaries, idols, votive objects, funerary offerings, and other material remains. www.bartleby.com /61/8.html   (9441 words)

Is Indo-European Religion Possible? - ADF Neopagan Druidism If religion is dependent on our cyclical obligations, or the rites we hold depend on what point we are in the wheel then if the different gods are making very different demands, our practices can hardly be considered the same religion. The extra effort and energy may make religion more difficult at first, but as the relationships are developed, the better an understanding one has of the gods and his relationship with them. The ADF liturgy would lend some credence to the notion that our religion is based on this hypothesis, for the gods fit into slots assigned to them as they fill universal I-E functions: the earth mother, the gatekeeper, the bardic deity, the guardians of the fire and the well, the outdwellers, etc. www.adf.org /articles/cosmology/ierelpos.html   (1432 words)

European route E75 The European Agency for Reconstruction, one of the Agencies of the European Union, has contributed to the reconstruction of the E75 in the Republic of Macedonia. The '''E75''' is part of the Trans European Road Network, which is a series of main roads in the European Union. In the area of the former Yugoslavia, the E75 is also known as Corridor X, one of a number of transport links identified as a priority for investment at the 3rd Pan-European transport conference held in Helsinki in 1997. q-basic.xodox.de /E75   (223 words)

White and Aryan - Stormfront White Nationalist Community Everywhere they went they brought their language (proto Indo-European), religion (the sacrificial fire cults of Agni, Varuna, Mitra, Indra, etc), trifunctional caste system, and honor culture. Advances made in the study of languages and religions during the 19th and 20th centuries lead many scholars to the conclusion that almost all European cultures were descended from the same source; the counquering Aryan tribe (the Basque and Finns are notable exceptions). To the best of my knowledge the Aryans are the ancestors of peoples living in Northern India, Pakistan and Iran and have nothing to do with any European ethnicity except for the fact that most Europeans speak Indo-European languages just as Aryans and their descended nations. www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=193576   (1456 words)

Axis mundi - It is thought that the idea of the Proto-Indo-European religion axis mundi, spread throughout Eurasia, in particular the concept of the world tree. The axis mundi (world axis), in religion or mythology, is the center of the world and/or the connection between heaven and Earth. Other corrolaries include Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, Jievaras of Lithuanian mythology, the Sefirot of Judaism, the Chakras common to many Eastern religions, and the Trees of Knowledge and Life in the Garden of Eden. psychcentral.com /psypsych/Axis_mundi   (638 words)

Indo-European Languages Then European interest in India began to grow, and there was the opportunity to study Sanskrit, the classical language of India, under the guidance of Indian teachers. In the 17th and 18th centuries a European scholar, having begun to master Latin and Greek and one or two modem European languages, might well go on to learn Hebrew - the language of the Old Testament - and perhaps Arabic. The corresponding terms in these north European languages are newly coined, and they have the obvious meaning 'three tens': Gothic threis tigjus, Lithuanian trys desimtys, Old Slavonic triye desete, tri deseti. koreamosaic.net /elp/extras/juniors/indoeur.html   (1605 words)

sciforums.com - >>Proto-Indo-European Religion<< Their language as well as religion (not their modern religion which is basically everybody is Christian, but rather the old pagan traditions) can be traced to a common source some 5000 years back, as can all other Indo-European languages/cultures/religions/genetic groups. Research of the implementation of agriculture and livestock tending in the Eastern European forest zone has become active only recently, and along with innovations in the social and ideological sphere, we may also discover new opportunities to model changes in language. As in the descendant mythologies (religions), each god serves many purposes, both in worship and in everyday life. www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=8883   (5190 words)

EtheraCon 2004 classes – Raw list It is a form of magic and sorcery, not a religion, and has been kept alive mostly within the confines of families or passed on very selectively by solitary practitioners. Paganism is still mostly a first-generation religion, which means that we often have non-Pagan parents, siblings, and other beloved and close relatives. Most religions have special foods associated with their holidays- the fried foods of Carnival and Channuka, Mince pie and Plum Pudding for Christmas, Hot Cross Buns for Easter... www.sheeley.org /econ/classes2004.html   (3507 words)

PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION This website is devoted to the study of PIE religion and culture. Clearly the linguistic aspects of this study will come into play but this site will focus more on the religion of the PIE's. I can be contacted at this address: wirowlkwos@yahoo.com mywebpage.netscape.com /wirowlkwos/instant/aboutme.html   (80 words)

eng 103 - Stormfront White Nationalist Community A few other sites i've found which mentiones some: Proto indo-european religion My thesis is that the common religion of pagan gods from India to Germany suggests a common ancestor of great influence in the ancient past. Non-aryans live in india, they lived there before and most likely any old aryan religion was in incorporated into the already existing indian religion. www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=214000   (340 words)

sauvage noble: “WeCIEC” XVII Day 2 Janda gave a widely appealing talk on the significance of linguistic reconstruction for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European religion, alongside comparision of ancient traditions and mythologies. Michael Janda (Münster), “The Religion of the Indo-Europeans” [PDF]—Prof. Diverse gods and goddesses in the daughter traditions were new independent figures who bore as names older gods’ epithets. caelestis.info /sauvagenoble/2005/11/xvii-day-2.html   (789 words)

An Indo-European FAQ During the Middle Ages, and especially during the Renaissance, European travelers and merchants to the East soon learned of the existence of Sanskrit [sams-krta “well-made”], which enjoyed a prestige in India similar to that of Latin in Europe as a language of religion, culture, science and higher learning. IE is not just the ancestor of European languages, but also of languages in India, Iran and other regions in western Asia. Even some 500 years ago, in the early 1500s, European scholars were becoming acquainted with Sanskrit and noted similarities between some Sanskrit words and forms and comparable ones in Latin and Greek. crh.choate.edu /English/deaston/de_ie_faq.htm   (1510 words)

Proto-Indo-European Religion -> Deities According to Miriam Robbins Dexter (1990b), she seems to be a non-Indo-European river and earth goddess who was adopted at an early stage of Proto-Indo-European religion. The "Fire in Water" theme is one of the mysteries of Indo-European myth and religion. Remember, Dumézil's system, no matter how useful, is not the be-all and end-all of Indo-European religion. www.ceisiwrserith.com /pier/deities.htm   (8199 words)

The Proto-Indo-European Hearth - ADF Neopagan Druidism The importance of fire in Indo-European (IE) religion is ensured by the IE languages, through such cognates as the Hittite hashsha, "hearth, fireplace," Latin ara, "altar," and Sanskrit asa, "ashes" (Polome, 1982, p. Polome, Edgar C. Indo-European Culture, with Special Attention to Religion. An altar, to the IEs, was a fire, and a fire might be used as an altar. www.adf.org /articles/cosmology/pie-hearth.html   (2122 words)

Khowar, the Language of Chitral, Pakistan Both came from some proto-Indo European religion which was carried along with the Indo European language when the Chitralis first got there some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Thus, it appears that the Chitralis are still speaking today one of the oldest Indo European languages in relatively undiluted form. Also, the Kalash Kafir religion which is still practiced today by about 3,000 people in Chitral has a resemblance to the ancient Greek religion of gods and goddesses. www.ishipress.com /khowar.htm   (1145 words)

Roger D. Woodard / Indo-European Sacred Space Employing and expanding on the fundamental methods of Émile Benveniste, as well as Georges Dumézil's tripartite analysis of Proto-Indo-European society, Woodard discovers not only the spatial dynamics of the archaic Roman cult but, stemming from that, an unexpected clarification of several obscure issues in the study of Roman religion. In Indo-European Sacred Space, Roger D. Woodard provides a careful examination of the sacred spaces of ancient Rome, finding them remarkably consistent with older Indo-European religious practices as seen in the Vedas of ancient India. www.press.uillinois.edu /s05/woodard.html   (178 words)

Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000       There is no Proto-Semitic word for “religion,” but several religious terms can be reconstructed, such as * asadi, “the lion’s tail.” Many Arabic nouns were borrowed together with the article into European languages, especially into Spanish; this is the source of the al- in a number of English words of Arabic origin, such as www.bartleby.com /61/10.html   (3655 words)

"Knowing" Words in Indo-European Languages The word ârya, which later simply meant "noble" in Sanskrit, was of course used in European theories of the "master race," the "Aryans." This had one curious consequence. It was called Sam.skr.ta, Sanskrit, which means "prepared," "cultivated," "polished," "correct." The language based on Pân.ini can be called "Classical Sanskrit," and that of the Vedas "Vedic Sanskrit." Classical Sanskrit remained the language of religion, philosophy, and high literature in India for centuries, and survives today as the indispensible language of religion and serious scholarship. The language that resulted was tidied up a bit and not precisely identical to the surviving language of the Vedas. www.friesian.com /cognates.htm   (2865 words)

Paganism and Reconstructionism with Ceisiwr Serith Currently, he is working on a book about Proto-Indo-European religion. For questions or comments on this web site, please contact the www.uri.edu /student_organizations/esa/activities/ceisiwrserith.html   (171 words)

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