Farming, fertility and foaming water: Indo-European ritualizations of life-giving growth forces in Scandinavian agriculture
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Publisher:Stockholm University Press
By: Terje Oestigaard
Table of contents
Introducing Indo-European ecologies
Strangers from the waters – serpents, canids, horses and others: Indo-European conceptions of human ecology and the CENTRE–PERIPHERY spatial schema
Cattle, cosmology and sacrifice: An Indo-European interpretation of burnt mounds
Monsters and cattle: A topos and its mutations in Indo-European mythology
Churning the ocean of milk – a historical-comparative study of the Indo-European root *menth1/2-
Farming, fertility and foaming water: Indo-European ritualizations of life-giving growth forces in Scandinavian agriculture
A tiny Indo-European ‘cow-suckler’? A new etymology for Breton buzhugenn, Middle Cornish vethygan and Gascon bousic, boudic ‘earthworm’
The Baltic house snakes in an Indo-European context
Afterword: The milk-drinking and milk-suckling snake revisited
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PDF ISBN: 978-91-7635-272-4 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-91-7635-273-1 | Hardback ISBN: 978-91-7635-271-7 | Mobi ISBN: 978-91-7635-274-8 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcu
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 258
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