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- catalog contributor b3207467.
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description "Foreword -- Preface -- Indo-European religions: an introduction -- PART ONE: DEATH AND FUNERARY GEOGRAPHY IN INDO-EUROPEAN MYTH: On the imagery of paradise -- The lord of the dead -- Waters of memory, waters of forgetfulness -- The ferryman of the dead -- Mithra(s) as sun and savior -- The hellhound -- The house of clay -- The two paths -- PART TWO: WAR, SACRIFICE, AND THE SCIENCE OF THE BODY: Homeric lyssa: "Wolfish rage" -- War and warriors: an overview -- Warriors and non-herdsmen: a response to Mary Boyce -- Sacrificial ideology and Indo-European society -- The Druids and human sacrifice -- On the Scythian royal burials -- Debreasting, disarming, beheading: some sacrificial practices of the Scyths and Amazons -- Physiological speculation and social patterning in a Pahlavi text -- Embryological speculation and gender politics in a Pahlavi text -- PART THREE: POLEMIC PIECES: Shaping the past and the future -- Kings, rebels, and the left hand -- Myth and history in the study of myth: an obscure text of Georges Dumezil, its context and subtext -- Acknowledgments -- Indexes.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 289 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226481999 (hard : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226482006 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "291.1/3 20".
- catalog subject "BL660 .L44 1991".
- catalog subject "Death Religious aspects.".
- catalog subject "Mythology, Indo-European.".
- catalog subject "Sacrifice.".
- catalog subject "War Religious aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword -- Preface -- Indo-European religions: an introduction -- PART ONE: DEATH AND FUNERARY GEOGRAPHY IN INDO-EUROPEAN MYTH: On the imagery of paradise -- The lord of the dead -- Waters of memory, waters of forgetfulness -- The ferryman of the dead -- Mithra(s) as sun and savior -- The hellhound -- The house of clay -- The two paths -- PART TWO: WAR, SACRIFICE, AND THE SCIENCE OF THE BODY: Homeric lyssa: "Wolfish rage" -- War and warriors: an overview -- Warriors and non-herdsmen: a response to Mary Boyce -- Sacrificial ideology and Indo-European society -- The Druids and human sacrifice -- On the Scythian royal burials -- Debreasting, disarming, beheading: some sacrificial practices of the Scyths and Amazons -- Physiological speculation and social patterning in a Pahlavi text -- Embryological speculation and gender politics in a Pahlavi text -- PART THREE: POLEMIC PIECES: Shaping the past and the future -- Kings, rebels, and the left hand -- Myth and history in the study of myth: an obscure text of Georges Dumezil, its context and subtext -- Acknowledgments -- Indexes.".
- catalog title "Death, war, and sacrifice : studies in ideology and practice / Bruce Lincoln ; foreword by Wendy Doniger.".
- catalog type "text".