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by Georges Dumézil


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Georges Dumzil, 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, Dumzil 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 (raj, rex), on the other the jurist-priest (brahman, flamen). 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.

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  • Title Mitra-Varuna An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty
  • Author Georges Dumézil
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  • Edition 0002-
  • Pages 192
  • Publisher Zone Books, New York
  • Date February 23, 1990
  • ISBN 9780942299137
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