Название: The Destiny of the Warrior
Автор: Georges Dumzil
Издательство: Univ of Chicago
Год: 1970
Страниц 184
ISBN: 0226169707
Формат: PDF
Размер: 31.1 MB
Язык Английский
Whereas The Destiny Of A King (see elsewhere) deals with “the first function” (religion, law, magic, etc.), this book speaks about the second (martial, warrior, etc.). As usually Dumzil starts with Indian and Iranian mythology where he finds and describes the warrior gods. Also he speaks about “the warrior function and its relations to the other two functions” by which this later work gives a very good idea of Dumzil’s theory of the three functions. The warriors written about at length are Indra, Starcatherus and Heracles, and Dumzil describes their three sins, functions and place in their respective mythologies (Hindu, Germanic and Greek). Also described at length are initiative combats with dummies, “warriors in animal forms” and etymological leads for the warrior gods’ names and their victims.