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Post by nellie on Apr 8, 2011 12:23:43 GMT -1
My understanding of the P.I..E stuff is a little bit different. I didn't take the Lord of the land of the dead to have become the earth?? My reading is quite limited so far though - I expect I'll understand more of Puhvel the next read 'round!
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Post by nellie on Apr 8, 2011 12:31:06 GMT -1
In relation to mining having a possible spiritual dimension in that it could concievably have been assosiated with the land of the dead, does that have any implications for how flint might have been viewed? I'm probably talking rubbish now But as a raw material that might have had links with the land of the dead? Hmm, not really sure where I'm going with this to be honest - just a random thought.
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Post by Adam on Apr 8, 2011 12:52:29 GMT -1
My understanding of the P.I..E stuff is a little bit different. I didn't take the Lord of the land of the dead to have become the earth?? My reading is quite limited so far though - I expect I'll understand more of Puhvel the next read 'round! I'm no scholar... hack of all trades, master of none, me... so I'm hoping some of our P.I.E experts might pipe up here :-D
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Post by deiniol on Apr 8, 2011 14:26:49 GMT -1
Duly piping up. In some myths, the body of the primordial sacrifice goes on to become the raw material from which the world is made: Ymir from Norse myth and the Indic Purusha are the most ready examples. Neither Purusha nor Ymir went on to become rulers over the land of the dead. However, the Indo-Iranian cognates of Ymir (that is, the Vedic Yama and Avestan Yima Xšaeta) were both rulers over an afterlife paradise.
So really, it could go either way.
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Post by Adam on Apr 8, 2011 14:37:36 GMT -1
Gods I like having knowledgeable folk available to summons from the vasty deep ;D Cheers deiniol
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