Mythology as a Key to Historical Ways of Thinking – Review of Emily Lyle, Ten Gods: A New Approach to Defining the Mythological Structures of the Indo-Europeans, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. (original) (raw)
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The publication under review is a perfectly prepared edition, arranged according to the conceptual form of encyclopedic entries. It contains both the standard headings (e.g. Illyrian language, pp. 287-289; Indo-European homeland, pp. Ż90-299; Jastorf culture, pp' 321-322) and the typical lexical entries (e.g. insects, p. 312, with hve nominal lexemes; Jump, pp. 323-324, rł'ith ten verbal roots), accompanied with plentiful tables, sketches, cfossreferences and bibliographical sources. There are useful indexes (Language index, pp. 659193, and General index, pp. 795-8Ż3), which permit us to find a question with no problem.
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Roots of Europe Project, 2023
This article proposing several approaches to Indo-European Homeland study, including an integrative , multi/interdisciplinary , systemic (holistic) transdisciplinary approach and contextual approach . Transdisciplinary, holistic, integrative and contextual approaches would allow to use Max Weber's social theory of systematic religion origin. Contrary to the general trend of seeing world historical processes as the result of various factors of world development, Weber saw the possibility of the influence of individual ideas and specific historical figures in shaping the conditions for the emergence of religion and reforming the old system religious worldview. This changed the modality of understanding the past. Modern historical sciences exclude the role of individual innovators in shaping historical change, using typological methods of analyzing material culture. Archaeology, Historical Linguistics, Anthropology, and Population Genetics all use methods that overlook the role of important inventions made by individual innovators that may impact society. Each of these approaches has its advantages and disadvantages, and they can be used in combination to avoid the trap of dichotomous consciousness and achieve a comprehensive understanding of the Indo-European Homeland paradigm.
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The Circumpontics, 2021
The following article considers a new theory for resolving the longstanding problem of identifying the geographic and temporal origin of Indo-Europeans. All existing theories provided thus far for the origin of Indo-Europeans suffer from one common error: the approaches presuppose an economic deterministic model for understanding historical transformation. However, Indo-Europeans were a community circumscribed by common language, therefore culture seems a more proper domain for analysis of origins than does an economistic approach. This paper proposes that the proper basis for analysis of cultural origins of Indo-Europeans resides at the level of spiritual production. A shortcoming of traditional archaeological formulations is its reliance on materialist models for spiritual and cultural concerns. The Indo-European population as a bounded community, however, is circumscribed by its common cultural formation, that of language. In this paper, we present an alternative theory for the emergence of Indo-Europeans and situate this origin in time and place. We rely on the Weberian hypothesis of a spiritual axial shift spurring an early prehistoric cultural transformation. By synthesizing historical linguistic and archaeological evidence, the approach offered below aims to the solve problems corresponding to a vulgar materialism’s economic determinist approach to Indo-European origin. By shifting the methodological and theoretical framing of the problem, this paper seeks to bypass the perpetual circling of the problem by proponents of the materialist model. This article is an English translation and adaptation of the Russian draft version.
Another analysis of the cause of origin of the Indo Europeans
Project "Roots of Europe" Society for history and cultural development "Oium" publishing, 2022
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Ethnogonic Texts in the Indo-European Tradition
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2021
This article examines the texts of the Indo-European tradition, which narrate about the myths of the origin of different peoples. Thus, a segment of the Anglo-Saxon runic series correlates with Tacitus’s description of the origin of the Ingaevon tribe. As a result, the parameters of the ethnically derived text are reconstructed. The parameters explain the choice of the sequence of the runes of the Anglo-Saxon futhork. The restored text testifies that the Ingaevons, who had the totem deity Ing, lived on the shores of the Ocean, and this was their homeland. Ethnogonic texts also tell about the correlation of totem and ethnonym in past eras. The German influence on the choice of the ethnonym “Rus”, determined by the alliterative connection of the name of the country with the name of Rurik’s tribe, has been explained. The “Rurikids” ethnonym itself came from the name of the Rhos tribe. Many ethnogonic texts are associated with sacrificial rituals. In this context, of interest is the nam...