Tag: Zeus
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Nomads and City Dwellers Institutions and Worldview
Reading Time: 16 minutes Ancient Israel: Its Life and InstitutionsRoland de Vaux The Bible is not reliable for ethnographic information. This is especially true in regard to nomads’ and city dwellers’ institutions and worldview. Sheep-breeding tribes who are beginning to settle down were formerly camel-breeders who had begun to raise cattle so they…
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The Warrior and His Gods
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn “The Stakes of the Warrior” Georges Dumézil uses his theory of the tri-functional structure of Indo-European society as a framework for the analyses of stories belonging to three different areas of the world; India, Scandinavia, and Greece. His comparative study includes the Scandinavian saga of Starkaṓr, the Indian tale of Śiśupāla,…