User:Alcaios/PIE

Colors
First function = white (Brahman and Druids dressed in white)

Second Function = red, (purple tunics of Roman generals and of the Salii, priests of Mars). Color of the dress of Samnite, Macedonian and Spartian warriors; same for Greek (Perseus, Achilleus), Irish (Cuchulainn), Armenian (Sanasar) heroes.

Medieval knights had their head covered with red during their dubbing. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Kurdish warriors wore a red coat and dyed their beards red or black.

Black dress is also attested among Thracians, Scythians, Tabari, Irish, Britonnic warriors, the chlamys of Ephebos; both the Indic Krsna and the Ossetian Soslan are described as the "black" or "black warrior" = mobilization of chtonic forces (themes of the "black earth" and "dark night")

Third = varies; black in India, dark blue in Iran, green or yellow elsewhere

(Dumézil, 1941, pp. 63-67, 94-99, 116-117 ; 1958, p. 26 ; Gerschel, 1966 ; Grisward, 1981, p. 257 ; 1983-1984 ; Sergent, 1995, pp. 436-438.)

Others
Sun and Moon

A famous Graeco-Vedic equation describes him as “spy (*spoḱos) of all beings” Sun-disk as a “wheel” (*kʷekʷlóm) in Vedic, Greek, Germanic (the wheel of his chariot) and “great path”) (h₂oǵmos meǵóh₂s ?) the path of the horses of his chariot. [Jackson 79-80]

Sun’s Daughter Helena (“mistress of sunlight”) [West 137] < *seleneh₂ // Saranyū < *seleniuh₂

=> both are associated with the Divine Twins [Jackson 67]

(see West 194f)


 * 1) Society

Axe (Mallory, 1997, 37-39)


 * 1) Rituals

Shamanism: (West, 2007, 148-149)

Cattle sacrifice: (Mallory, 1997, 137-138)


 * 1) Poetry

Beekes p. 42-45

(Mallory, 1997, 436) Martin Edward Huld (born 1950) is an American linguist.

Born in a family of German descent, Martin E. Huld earned a Bachelor of Arts from California State University in 1972, and received a Phd in the same institution in 1978. From 1988 to 1990, he worked as an etymological consultant for the American Heritage Dictionary, then worked as an instructor at Mount St. Mary’s College from 1991 to 1998.