• and Indo-European studies. Georges Dumézil was born in Paris, France, on 4 March 1898, the son of Jean Anatole Jean Dumézil and Marguerite Dutier. His...
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    also the title of a 1940 essay in Proto-Indo-European mythology by Georges Dumézil. Mitra (Vedic) Varuna S.S Gupta (2013). A Study of Deities of Rig Veda...
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    mythographer Georges Dumézil, who proposed it in 1929 in the book Flamen-Brahman, and later in Mitra-Varuna. According to Georges Dumézil (1898–1986),...
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    as suggested by Georges Dumézil, following hints in Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Another of Dumézil's theories is that...
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    existed in Proto-Indo-European religion and mythology. First proposed by Georges Dumézil, he considered it to have been composed of two distinct elements –...
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    Víðarr (section Dumézil)
    an enemy. Georges Dumézil theorized that Víðarr represents a cosmic figure from an archetype derived from the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Dumézil stated that...
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    counterpart of Egeria. The name Egeria has been diversely interpreted. Georges Dumézil proposed it came from ē-gerere ("bear out"), suggesting an origin from...
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    and collated by a number of linguists, including Georges Charachidzé, Georges Dumézil, Hans Vogt, George Hewitt and A. Sumru Özsoy, with the help of some...
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  • scholars (Alexander Afanasyev, Richard Heinzel, Jooseppi Julius Mikkola, Georges Dumézil, et al.), is motivated by the consideration of kvasir as a personification...
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     428–429. Puhvel 1987, pp. 15–18. Puhvel 1987, p. 15. Dumézil, Georges (1929). Flamen-Brahman. Dumézil 1986. Mallory & Adams 2006, pp. 429–430. West 2007...
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