Dumézil ›in practice‹ der »Fall« Varuṇa und Odin
The theory of Dumézil was mainly derived from historical written sources, both mythological and epic. The main focus for the builing-up of the tripartite ideology in the early stages was on Vedic India and not least on Germanic-Scandinavian mythology. The assumed tripartite structure of the Indo-Eur...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Diagonal-Verlag
2012
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 1998, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-162 |
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| Summary: | The theory of Dumézil was mainly derived from historical written sources, both mythological and epic. The main focus for the builing-up of the tripartite ideology in the early stages was on Vedic India and not least on Germanic-Scandinavian mythology. The assumed tripartite structure of the Indo-European society and religion was specified by Dumézil through a distinction of two aspects of the first function, which should represent the binding, punishing, disquieting and the reliable, animical, benevolent implication of rulership and sovereignty. This position is held in the Vedic pantheon by Varuna and in the Eddie mythology by Odin. A consequent appli-cation of Dumézil's characteristcs of this aspect on these two gods and a comparison between both on this funda-ment shows that the claimed identity in the framework of the system does not go confirm with the evidence of the oldest texts. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/0029.137 |