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Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

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Georges Dum�zil, founder of the new comparative mythology, discovered that all Indo-European religions are articulated according to three hierarchical functions: sacred sovereignty, force, and fecundity. In Mitra-Varuna he develops this general theory but concentrates on the most important of these functions: sovereignty. In particular, Dum�zil shows that religious and/or political sovereignty - from India to Rome, from Iran to Scandinavia - is conceived as a dual category: on the one hand the magician-king , on the other the jurist-priest . Mitra-Varuna, combines extraordinarv scholarship and theoretical discovery with the pleasures of storytelling. A founding work of comparative, mythology, it is today a seminal essay in the archaeology of power.Distributed for Zone Books.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Zone Books

Release: February 23, 1990

ISBN: 0942299132

ISBN 13: 9780942299137

Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Georges Dum�zil, founder of the new comparative mythology, discovered that all Indo-European religions are articulated according to three hierarchical functions: sacred sovereignty, force, and fecundity. In Mitra-Varuna he develops this general theory but concentrates on the most important of these functions: sovereignty. In particular, Dum�zil shows that religious and/or political sovereignty - from India to Rome, from Iran to Scandinavia - is conceived as a dual category: on the one hand the magician-king , on the other the jurist-priest . Mitra-Varuna, combines extraordinarv scholarship and theoretical discovery with the pleasures of storytelling. A founding work of comparative, mythology, it is today a seminal essay in the archaeology of power.Distributed for Zone Books.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Zone Books

Release: February 23, 1990

ISBN: 0942299132

ISBN 13: 9780942299137

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