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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> warrior
		In 1937 Georges DumÃ©zil famously speculated that Proto-Indo-European society was composed of a priestly class, a warrior class, and a class of commoners or peasants.
		In many societies in which a specialized warrior class exists, specific codes of behavior (ethical codes) are instituted in order to ensure that the warrior class is not dangerous to the rest of society.
		The classification of somebody who is involved in acts of violence may be a matter of perspective, and there may be disagreement whether a given person is a hooligan, a gangster, a terrorist, a rebel, a freedom fighter, a mercenary or a soldier.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/warrior (304 words)

	Proto-Indo-European religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such a division was suggested for the Proto-Indo-European society by Georges Dumézil.
		Many Indo-European societies know a threefold division of a clerical class, a warrior class and a class of peasants or husbandmen.
		Examples of the descendents of this class in historical Indo-European societies would be the Celtic Druids and the Indian Brahmins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion (1183 words)

	Indo-European languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yamna culture is at its peak, representing the classical reconstructed Proto-Indo-European society, with stone idols, early two-wheeled proto-chariots, predominantly practicing animal husbandry, but also with permanent settlements and hillforts, subsisting on agriculture and fishing, along rivers.
		Another example may be the Paleolithic Continuity Theory proposed by Italian theorists that derives Indo-European from the European Paleolithic cultures.
		Northern Europe enters the Pre-Roman Iron Age, the formative phase of Proto Germanic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indo-European_languages (2048 words)

	Indo-European Culture
		The Indo-European society was warlike, exogamic, patriarchal, patrilineal, and patrilocal, with a strong clanic organization and social hierarchy which gave prominence to the warrior class.
		"The Old European and Indo-European belief systems are diametrically opposed.
		In European folk beliefs, she still moves within pregnant women in the shape of a wandering uterus or a toad.
	www.humanevolution.net /a/indo-european.html (5410 words)

	Proto-Indo-European language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As PIE was spoken by a prehistoric society, no genuine sample texts are available, but since the 19th century modern scholars have made various attempts to compose example texts for purposes of illustration.
		Various proposals, with varying levels of skepticism, also exist that join some subset of the putative Eurasiatic language families and/or some of the Caucasian language families, such as Uralo-Siberian, Ural-Altaic (once widely accepted but now largely discredited), Proto-Pontic, etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language (2733 words)

	Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
		The existence of Proto-Indo-European presupposes the existence, in some fashion, of a society of Indo-Europeans.
		The ultimate “cradle” of the Indo-Europeans may well never be known, and language remains the best and fullest evidence for prehistoric Indo-European society.
		When we have reconstructed a protolanguage, we have also necessarily established the existence of a prehistoric society, a speech community that used that protolanguage.
	www.bartleby.com /61/8.html (9441 words)

	We, the Balts
		Proto - Indo - Europeans was so realistic to Schleicher that he wrote even a fable about a horse and a sheep in this first proto - language, which he reconstructed on the basis of the linguistic facts of the living Indo - European language.
		According to it, Proto - Indo - European was spoken between southern Transcaucasia and northern Mesopotamia not later that the 5th - 4th centuries BC.
		The latter fact induced the linguists to look for the Proto -Indo - European homeland in places where wolves roamed in birch groves and snow was a usual phenomenon, for Indo - Eoropean languages also have a common word for snow.
	postilla.mch.mii.lt /Kalba/baltai.en.htm (1969 words)

	Proto-Indo-European Religion -> What was the Proto-Indo-European religion like ?
		Society is bound together by an exchange of gifts, by acting as guest on one occasion and host on another.
		Although some see this as a cold contractual exchange, it is through this exchange that a relationship is created between the gods and us, bind us closely to them in a shared society.
		Since the gods know the rules the rules of hospitality, they would then be obligated to serve as hosts on another occasion, and they would do so by granting us favors.
	www.ceisiwrserith.com /pier/whatwasreligion.htm (767 words)

	Proto-Indo-European Ritual
		This is a domestic reflection of the ghosti-principle; the exchange of hospitality binds society together.
		Proceedings of the Centenary Conference of the Folklore Society.
		In a perfect society, they are the societal expression of the Xartus.
	www.ceisiwrserith.com /pier/ritual.htm (7456 words)

	Proto-Indo-European Religion -> Deities
		This is due in part to the patriarchal nature of Proto-Indo-European society.
		He is therefore a god of peace and plenty, of the successful and orderly continuance of society.
		As well as showing that she has control over her own sexuality (no matter how limited is the degree to which society can allow her this), her serial marriages are, for Hindu society, downright promiscuous.
	www.ceisiwrserith.com /pier/deities.htm (8199 words)

	Nemos Ognios
		In the first instance, society is bound together by an exchange of gifts, or by acting as guest on one occasion and host on another.
		The second function is divided into the good warrior who protects society and the dangerous one whom we must be protected from.
		The occupy an ambiguous place in society, sometime forming a fourth function (such as in India), and sometime being viewed as somewhat dangerous.
	www.geocities.com /nemosognios/Articles/protoie.htm (2309 words)

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	trishwilson.typepad.com /blog/2005/11/breaking_the_si.html (14029 words)

	PIE
		Most spoken European languages belong to the Indo-European superfamily.
		They belonged to a patriarchal society where the lineage was determined through males only (because of a lack of words referring to the female's side of the family.) They also made use of a decimal counting system by 10's, and formed words by compounding.
		Then dialects developed in the new languages as the tribes prospered and expanded until a tree of related languages and dialects developed and all the languages spoken throughout the IE area.
	lewis.up.edu /efl/vermeers/PIE.html (943 words)

	Rune Gild: Odhinn & Tyr: Two modes of Sovereignty by Philip Quadrio
		However, in Indo-European society this structure is intimately connected to religion and receives expression in myth, pantheon and ritual - hence the social structure of the Indo-European people is seen as a reflection of mythical structure of the cosmos, this is in line with the thesis that myth expresses and strengthens deep social values.
		Importantly Lincoln’s thesis maintains a similar bifunctionality in sovereignty to that which was proposed by Dumezil, a bifunctionality of rule which seems to have been the norm in Indo-European society.
		Both of these theorists have argued that Indo-European society is marked by a dualistic, or bi-functional notion of sovereignty.
	www.runegild.org /pq_tyr_odhinn.html (9839 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.
		Typically, Old European goddesses were relegated to the third function, prosperity or fertility, and thus became grouped as "lowest gods".
		Lithuania was a considerable force in Eastern European relations, by the time it officially accepted Christianity, under the rule of Grand Duke Jogaila in 1387.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/3503/lecture98.html (2517 words)

	Lect2Theory
		Dumezil: Main Theory: there were three classes in the Proto-Indo-European society (priests/rulers, warriors, food producers) which we can see reflected in the myths of all cultures that were derived from it.
		Discovery that a root language, called Proto Indo European, was at the base of most European and some Near Eastern languages inspires anthropologists to apply this linguistic discovery to the cultures they were studying.
		If there was a root language, then perhaps there were characteristics in all European cultures that were similar because they were derived from this root culture.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/lupack/Lect2Theory.html (694 words)

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		Pseudo proto terms are so called because they're likely based on loans postdating the proto language in whose phonology they're written.
		Most of the Proto Central Algonquian or Proto Lake ones are found in John Hewson's Computer-Generated Dictionary of Proto Algonquian (Hewson 1993).
		These people formed a society, who governed themselves by customary law, based on their need to cooperate to survive.
	www.lulu.com /Algic (3873 words)

	Werewolf - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		These myths probably have a common base in Proto-Indo-European society, where the class of young, unwed warriors were apparently associated with wolves.
		Many European countries and cultures have stories of werewolves, including Greece (lycanthropos), Spain (hombre lobo), Bulgaria (varkolak, vulkodlak), Serbia (vukodlak), Russia (volkodlak), Poland (wilkołak), Romania (vârcolac), England (werwolf), Germany (Werwolf), Sweden (Varulv), France (loup-garou), Galicia, Portugal and Brazil (lobisón, lobisomem), Lithuania (vilkolakis and vilkatlakis) and Estonia (libahunt).
		The simplest was the act of the enchanter (operating either on himself or on a victim), and another was the removal of the animal belt or skin.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Werewolves (2613 words)

	Human Evolution: Excepts and the origin of a theory explaining autism, dyslexia and more.
		I surmised that there were members of contemporary society that evidence physiological, neurological, and behavioral features characteristic of this hypothesized evolutionary past: a combination of verbally challenged, physically adroit, musically inclined, ambidextrous (cerebrally non-lateralized), and larger brained (brain sizes have decreased over the last 25 thousand years).
		It seemed that there were discernable patterns to the anomalies and that the the evidence of female sexual selection might be found in the clusters of features of various neurological structures and hormonal constellations in humans today.
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	www.humanevolution.net (4115 words)

	The Problem of Indo-European Homeland: an article by Cyril Babaev
		The evidently important role of the cattle breeding in the Indo-European society also witness in favour of the 43rd millennium as the date of their arrival in Europe.
		This means at least that Proto-Indo-Europeans did not live in Western or Central Europe, but came there later, being already diversified.
		The "European theory" according to which the Indo-Europeans always lived somewhere in the center of Europe (Southern Germany, the Alps, Eastern France), could not stand the critics.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/article14.html (1851 words)

	Cappuccino Persian Online Magazine Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Migrations
		These changes, along with their complex belief system, lead some to believe that the proto-Indo-Iranian society was not as simplistic and nomadic based as currently assumed.
		The traditional story would tell us that the superior military power of Indo-Aryans, especially their use of horses, left no chance for the local Dravidians, who were conquered, massacred, and absorbed into the Aryan society as "untouchables" or driven to the south of the Indian peninsula.
		It has been called a racist idea, it has been challenged by those who felt "left-out" of it, and it has been linked to colonialism and the idea of European superiority.
	www.cappuccinomag.com /iranologyenglish/001201.shtml (1382 words)

	1.thread
		It's relationship to English is that words that we currently use, based on their evolution due to society and clutural changes, still have Proto-Indo-European roots.
		Proto-Indo-European is the name for the principal languages spoken now or formerly in Iceland and Ireland in the east and India in the west and Scandanavia in the north to Greece and Italy in the south.
		This family of languages is important to English because it is believed that English in its modern, present form ultimately derived from Proto Indo-European languages.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/markport/language/language_forum/1.thread (1268 words)

	Society Fresh:Category Top/Society/Folklore/Religion
		In Proto-Indo-European society, the wolf was probably associated with the warrior class (see also werewolf), and the term was subject to taboo deformation, the Latin lupus being an example of a mutated form of the original Proto-Indo-European *wlkwos.
		It reflects values important to traditional Ilocano society; it is a heroýs journey steeped in courage, loyalty, pragmatism, honor, and ancestral and familial bonds.Ilocano animistic past offers a rich background in folklore, mythology and superstition (see Religion in the Philippines).
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	www.society-fresh.net /Category485600.html (825 words)

	Lexicon and culture (from Indo-European languages) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The term Indo-Hittite is used by scholars who believe that Hittite and the other Anatolian languages are not just one branch of Indo-European but rather a branch coordinate with all the rest put together; thus, Indo-Hittite has been used for a family...
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		Fifteenth century European explorers turned to the sea in their quest for a new route to the East.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-74560 (1035 words)

	Science News: Indo-European pursuits: scientific paths diverge in the quest for ancient Eurasians - Cover Story
		A growing number of archaeologists now envision a kinder, gentler origin of Indo-European speakers.
		Their male-dominated, warrior society replaced the relatively peaceful, female-centered civilization that had long existed in Europe.
		She described several waves of expansion and conquest by mounted nomads who rode west from a homeland north of the Black Sea beginning about 6,400 years ago.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n8_v147/ai_16723788 (1379 words)

	ENG 121: Indo-European Languages
		C. Evidence for Indo-European first presented in 1786 at the Royal Society by Sir William Jones, who noted overwhelming correspondences among Greek, Latin, English, and Sanskrit.
		The emergence of specific Indo-European families of languages only begin at around 2000 BC (maybe a bit earlier for a few--Greek).
		Between the two early cultures, the early proto- languages of most of Europe can be acconted for.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~grabe/notes/notes31.html (697 words)

	European Indo Proto European Indo Natural Languages Linguistics Social Sciences Science
		European Indo Proto European Indo Natural Languages Linguistics Social Sciences Science
		they do seem to have got it right is that Indo-European society was...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Proto-Indo-European (584 words)

	The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
		In Calvert Watkins’s skilled hands, Proto-Indo-European language and society are rendered as alive and compelling as they must have been six thousand years ago.
		More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the advent of writing.
		His introductory essay shows how words in an unrecorded ancient language can be reconstructed and offers a wealth of fascinating information about Proto-Indo-European culture.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/searchresults.cfm?adv=y&authorID=2233 (131 words)

	Nick Boalch Writings Introduction to Proto-Indo-European
		One of the more interesting aspects of the study of proto-Indo-European has been the anthropological use of its reconstructed vocabulary to identify the characteristics of proto-Indo-European society: how its speakers lived, farmed, hunted and, perhaps most contentiously, where they originated.
		Sir William Jones, a judge in India in the late 18th century, explained the relationship in a classic address to the Asiatick Society of Calcutta in 1786:
		Many theories have been suggested, argued over and discarded: current prevailing wisdom places the 'homeland' on the south Russian steppes, north of the Black Sea, but 'linguistic paleontologists' have argued the case of many other locations.
	nick.frejol.org /writings/proto-indo-european.live (992 words)

	Common source
		In 1786, in a paper delivered to the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, he proposed that these languages, as well as Germanic and Celtic languages were descended from a common source, Indo-European, which was probably spoken between 5,000 and 3,000 B.C.E. (see
		Sir William Jones, while in the service of the British Empire as a Supreme Court Justice in India, studied Sanskrit and was struck by the affinity among Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/pre.html (561 words)

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