Proto-Indo-European mythology
Proto-Indo-European mythology is the possible mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.[1] These are the people who spoke the Proto-Indo-European language. Scholars believe many mythologies like Greek mythology have elements from it.[2]
Proto-Indo-European Mythology Media
Trundholm sun chariot, Nordic Bronze Age, c. 1600 BC
Portrait of Friedrich Max Müller, a prominent early scholar on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European religion and a proponent of the Meteorological School.[3]
Charon prepares to receive the shade of a youth into his skiff. The ferryman leans on his pole and is surrounded by the reeds of the river Acheron (one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld).
Zoroastrian deities Mithra (left) and Ahura Mazda (right) with king Ardashir II.
Zeus with a laurel crown. Gold stater from Lampsacus, Mysia (ca. 360–340 BC), obverse.
Eos in her chariot flying over the sea, red-figure krater from South Italy, 430–420 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich.
Possible depiction of the Hittite Sun goddess holding a child in her arms from between 1400 and 1200 BC.
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References
- ↑ "Ancient Mythology: The Proto-Indo-European Pantheon | European Origins". Archived from the original on 2023-05-11. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
- ↑ West, M. L. (2007-05-24). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928075-9.
- ↑ Puhvel 1987.
