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| | Proto-Indo-European religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The main functionaries of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European religion would have been maintained by a class of priests or shamans. | | | The various Indo-European daughter-cultures continued elements of the hypothesized PIE religion, syncretizing it with innovations and foreign elements, notably Ancient Near Eastern elements, the reforms of Zoroaster and Buddha, and the spread of Christianity and Islam. | | | This hypothetical religion would have been the ancestor of the majority of the religions of pre-Christian Europe, of the Dharmic religions in India, and of Zoroastrianism in Iran. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion
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| | Proto-Indo-Europeans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They practiced a polytheistic religion centered on sacrificial rites, probably administered by a priestly caste. | | | The cow (gwous) played a central role, in religion and mythology as well as in daily life. | | | It must be understood as a military victory in terms of imposing a new administrative system, language and religion upon the indigenous groups. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans
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| | european religion Information and Resources - God Has A Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| | useful, is not the be-all and end-all of Indo-European religion. | | | Religion man says small whole kinship folktales european culture new years european religion, rituals foodways religion globalization new years culutre cultuer religion weaponry. | | | Inaugurated in 1994, the John Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year Award is conferred to a journalist for excellence, enterprise and versatility in... |
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http://www.godhasadream.com/religion/european-religion
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| | ooBdoo |
| | Millions of Europeans profess no religion or are atheistic or agnostic. | | | England, a part of the UK, has Anglicanism as its official religion. | | | Traditional African Religions (including Muti), mainly in the UK and France. |
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http://www.oobdoo.com/wikipedia/index.php?title=Europe
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| | Thesis.doc |
| | As a daughter religion of Proto-Indo-European religion, which strongly held to its original roots, the Germanic religion is a mere reflection of the Germanic society of that period. | | | Within the Proto-Indo-European religion, his function served as a god of the first tier as the sovereign power of magic, but he also was the god of the spear. | | | Freyas connections to the sow (an Old European fertility symbol) and her roles as mistress of animals (another Old European symbol) - which several poems speak of her bestiality are further proof of her connection to the Old European religion. |
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http://www.jgmf.org/thor/schrift/papers/thesis/Thesis.doc
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| | Is Indo-European Religion Possible? - ADF Neopagan Druidism |
| | The other alternative for an I-E religion worshipping the same set of gods is to simply include all of the gods in one huge pantheon. | | | Either the gods we are worshipping are literally the same deities known by different names to different cultures, or our religion encompasses all of the deities of all of the I-E cultures. | | | If religion is dependent on our cyclical obligations, or the rites we hold depend on what point we are in the wheel then if the different gods are making very different demands, our practices can hardly be considered the same religion. |
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http://www.adf.org/articles/cosmology/ierelpos.html
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| | Chthonic and Indo-European Elements |
| | Though theorising, I suspect that it is a battle that rages between the Old European, Chthonic pantheon and that of the Sky deities of the Indo-Europeans. | | | The religion was not a state religion, but varied from region to region and from tribe to tribe. | | | Typically, Old European goddesses were relegated to the third function, prosperity or fertility, and thus became grouped as "lowest gods". |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3503/lecture98.html
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| | sauvage noble: “WeCIEC” XVII Day 2 |
| | Janda gave a widely appealing talk on the significance of linguistic reconstruction for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European religion, alongside comparision of ancient traditions and mythologies. | | | Michael Janda (Münster), “The Religion of the Indo-Europeans” [PDF]—Prof. | | | Diverse gods and goddesses in the daughter traditions were new independent figures who bore as names older gods’ epithets. |
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http://caelestis.info/sauvagenoble/2005/11/xvii-day-2.html
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| | Axis mundi - |
| | It is thought that the idea of the Proto-Indo-European religion axis mundi, spread throughout Eurasia, in particular the concept of the world tree. | | | The axis mundi (world axis), in religion or mythology, is the center of the world and/or the connection between heaven and Earth. | | | Other corrolaries include Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, Jievaras of Lithuanian mythology, the Sefirot of Judaism, the Chakras common to many Eastern religions, and the Trees of Knowledge and Life in the Garden of Eden. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Axis_mundi
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| | Khowar, the Language of Chitral, Pakistan |
| | Both came from some proto-Indo European religion which was carried along with the Indo European language when the Chitralis first got there some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. | | | Thus, it appears that the Chitralis are still speaking today one of the oldest Indo European languages in relatively undiluted form. | | | Also, the Kalash Kafir religion which is still practiced today by about 3,000 people in Chitral has a resemblance to the ancient Greek religion of gods and goddesses. |
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http://www.ishipress.com/khowar.htm
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| | Indo-European Culture |
| | In this she contrasts with the Indo-European Earth-Mother, who is the impalpable sacred earth-spirit and is not in herself a creative principle; only through the interaction of the male sky-god does she become pregnant." (Marija Gimbutas (1974) The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe. | | | Jung in a talk, once drew a most illuminating image, describing the mother religions as an uroboros, the circled serpent with its tail in its mouth. | | | In European folk beliefs, she still moves within pregnant women in the shape of a wandering uterus or a toad. |
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http://www.humanevolution.net/a/indo-european.html
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| | Recommended Book List |
| | The author's portrayal of the religion of the Druids and their function in the Celtic society is an interesting interpretation, and while some might argue with it, it remains a perfectly plausible view, well-presented and readily understandable to a modern reader, whatever his religious background may be. | | | This is due to the fact that her presentation is always given towards discerning patterns, and she makes liberal use of comparisons between Norse pagan religions and related cultural groups, such as the Celts, the Balts, the Slavs, and even the Greeks and Romans. | | | Comparative Religion: Works that focus on relationships, patterns, and comparisons between various religious traditions. |
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http://www.tuathadebrighid.org/recbook.htm
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| | Indo-European Languages |
| | Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Pali and Avestan are classical languages of religion, philosophy and culture. | | | In the 17th and 18th centuries a European scholar, having begun to master Latin and Greek and one or two modem European languages, might well go on to learn Hebrew - the language of the Old Testament - and perhaps Arabic. | | | Then European interest in India began to grow, and there was the opportunity to study Sanskrit, the classical language of India, under the guidance of Indian teachers. |
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http://koreamosaic.net/elp/extras/juniors/indoeur.html
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| | sciforums.com - >>Proto-Indo-European Religion<< |
| | Their language as well as religion (not their modern religion which is basically everybody is Christian, but rather the old pagan traditions) can be traced to a common source some 5000 years back, as can all other Indo-European languages/cultures/religions/genetic groups. | | | As in the descendant mythologies (religions), each god serves many purposes, both in worship and in everyday life. | | | Research of the implementation of agriculture and livestock tending in the Eastern European forest zone has become active only recently, and along with innovations in the social and ideological sphere, we may also discover new opportunities to model changes in language. |
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http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=8883
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| | (23) The deliberate speculation of the term Proto-Indo-European language; and Sanskrit morphology. |
| | (This will be elaborated in articles 32, 33) Now we should know that apart from the Sanskrit language there is no such thing as Proto-Indo-European language as it is self-evident from the findings of Sanskrit apbhransh words in all the existing Asian and European languages. | | | But still, these 18th and 19th century linguists created a term ‘Proto-Indo-European’ for the original parent language which was assumed to be spoken about 5,000 years ago by the nomads who assumingly roamed around near the southeast European plains. | | | The True History and the Religion of India |
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http://encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/23_the_speculation_of.htm
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| | Proto-Indo-European Religion -> Deities |
| | According to Miriam Robbins Dexter (1990b), she seems to be a non-Indo-European river and earth goddess who was adopted at an early stage of Proto-Indo-European religion. | | | The "Fire in Water" theme is one of the mysteries of Indo-European myth and religion. | | | Remember, Dumézil's system, no matter how useful, is not the be-all and end-all of Indo-European religion. |
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http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
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| | White and Aryan - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Everywhere they went they brought their language (proto Indo-European), religion (the sacrificial fire cults of Agni, Varuna, Mitra, Indra, etc), trifunctional caste system, and honor culture. | | | Advances made in the study of languages and religions during the 19th and 20th centuries lead many scholars to the conclusion that almost all European cultures were descended from the same source; the counquering Aryan tribe (the Basque and Finns are notable exceptions). | | | To the best of my knowledge the Aryans are the ancestors of peoples living in Northern India, Pakistan and Iran and have nothing to do with any European ethnicity except for the fact that most Europeans speak Indo-European languages just as Aryans and their descended nations. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=193576
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| | Numbers, numerals and count in Indo-European: an article by Cyril Babaev |
| | This was the matter of a dialect which existed within the Proto-Indo-European language community, but the stem was the same. | | | The stem *oi- evidently meant "single", "the only", but could rarely exist just as it was, it usually added a suffix: thus, *oi-k-os existed in Indo-Iranian (Sanskrit eka, Kurdish yak), *oi-n-os was developed in most European languages (like Greek en, Latin unus), and some languages had the form derived from *oi-w-os (for instance, Avestan aeva). | | | Many features of the language were connected with the religion or mythology, with the understanding of the world which existed at the time. |
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http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article12.html
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| | EtheraCon 2004 classes – Raw list |
| | It is a form of magic and sorcery, not a religion, and has been kept alive mostly within the confines of families or passed on very selectively by solitary practitioners. | | | However devout we may be, those of us who do not live in cloisters have lives beyond the practice of our religion. | | | I'll be describing their religion and hopefully showing how we can find meaning in this 5000 year-old culture. |
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http://www.sheeley.org/econ/classes2004.html
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| | YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Dyeus |
| | As the pantheons of the individual mythologies related to the Proto-Indo-European religion evolved, attributes of Dyeus were sometimes redistributed to other, newer gods. | | | In Greek and Roman mythology, Dyeus remained the chief god, while in Vedic and Germanic mythology, the etymological continuants of Dyeus became pale, rather featureless gods, and his original attributes, and his dominance over other gods, were transferred to gods whose names cannot be reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European times, such as Odin, Thor or Indra. | | | In his aspect as a Father God, his consort was Pltvi Mhter, "Earth Mother". |
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http://www.yourart.com/research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Dyeus
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| | eng 103 - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | A few other sites i've found which mentiones some: Proto indo-european religion | | | My thesis is that the common religion of pagan gods from India to Germany suggests a common ancestor of great influence in the ancient past. | | | Non-aryans live in india, they lived there before and most likely any old aryan religion was in incorporated into the already existing indian religion. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=214000
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| | "Knowing" Words in Indo-European Languages |
| | It was called Sam.skr.ta, Sanskrit, which means "prepared," "cultivated," "polished," "correct." The language based on Pân.ini can be called "Classical Sanskrit," and that of the Vedas "Vedic Sanskrit." Classical Sanskrit remained the language of religion, philosophy, and high literature in India for centuries, and survives today as the indispensible language of religion and serious scholarship. | | | The word ârya, which later simply meant "noble" in Sanskrit, was of course used in European theories of the "master race," the "Aryans." This had one curious consequence. | | | Airya was the form of the same word in Avestan, and Irân is its modern Persian descendant. |
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http://www.friesian.com/cognates.htm
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| | PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION |
| | This website is devoted to the study of PIE religion and culture. | | | Clearly the linguistic aspects of this study will come into play but this site will focus more on the religion of the PIE's. | | | I can be contacted at this address: wirowlkwos@yahoo.com |
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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/wirowlkwos/instant/aboutme.html
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| | An Indo-European FAQ |
| | During the Middle Ages, and especially during the Renaissance, European travelers and merchants to the East soon learned of the existence of Sanskrit [sams-krta “well-made”], which enjoyed a prestige in India similar to that of Latin in Europe as a language of religion, culture, science and higher learning. | | | Even some 500 years ago, in the early 1500s, European scholars were becoming acquainted with Sanskrit and noted similarities between some Sanskrit words and forms and comparable ones in Latin and Greek. | | | IE is not just the ancestor of European languages, but also of languages in India, Iran and other regions in western Asia. |
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http://crh.choate.edu/English/deaston/de_ie_faq.htm
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| | The Proto-Indo-European Hearth - ADF Neopagan Druidism |
| | The importance of fire in Indo-European (IE) religion is ensured by the IE languages, through such cognates as the Hittite hashsha, "hearth, fireplace," Latin ara, "altar," and Sanskrit asa, "ashes" (Polome, 1982, p. | | | Polome, Edgar C. Indo-European Culture, with Special Attention to Religion. | | | An altar, to the IEs, was a fire, and a fire might be used as an altar. |
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http://www.adf.org/articles/cosmology/pie-hearth.html
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| | Paganism and Reconstructionism with Ceisiwr Serith |
| | Currently, he is working on a book about Proto-Indo-European religion. | | | For questions or comments on this web site, please contact the |
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http://www.uri.edu/student_organizations/esa/activities/ceisiwrserith.html
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| | PIE RELIGION |
| | Welcome to the official homepage of the PIE Religion mail list on | | | For those of you who do not know, PIE refers to |
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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/wirowlkwos
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