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The War of the Gods Pbdirect - The Social Code in Indo-European Mythology (Hardcover)
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The War of the Gods Pbdirect - The Social Code in Indo-European Mythology (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Myth
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This structural analysis of myth, first published in 1985, focuses
on social and political problems of Indo-European mythology. Dr
Jarich Oosten tells how the ancient Indo-European gods competed for
supreme power and the exclusive possession of the sacred potion of
wisdom and immortality. In examining the social code of the wars of
the gods, he reveals that there are remarkably consistent patterns
in time and space: paternal relatives, equals at first, prove
unable to share power, magic goods, etc; while some gods retain
their divine status as an exclusive prerogative, their brothers or
paternal cousins are transformed into demons; relatives by
marriage, however, who are unequal at first, succeed in sharing
power and magic goods, and thus become equal partners in the
pantheon. Dr Oosten describes how the ancient mythological cycles
were broken down and transformed into heroic sagas and epics, and
shows how many traditionally related themes - the severed head, the
magic cauldron - were preserved. Gradually the political problems
of kingship came to overshadow the social problems of kinship, as
in the development of the myths of King Arthur. Dr Oosten argues
that the social code remains basically the same, and his analysis
of this code gives a fascinating perspective on the development of
Indo-European mythology from the oldest written sources to the
comparatively recent faitytales.
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