Iamos – the Greek counterpart of the Indo-Iranian Twin-God *Yama-?

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Authors

BLAŽEK Václav

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Indo-European Studies
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords twin-god or hero; kingdom of the dead; ritual sacrifice; divine curriculum
Description In the present contribution a Greek semidivine hero Iamos is introduced with regard to his mythological curriculum, mediated by Pindar. In this perspective his description is compared with characteristic features of personages of twin gods or heroes in various Indo-European traditions and analyzed from both mythological and etymological points of views. The Fenno-Ugric parallels, probably borrowed from an Indo-Iranian source, offer an explanation, why just the Indo-Iranian twin-god *Yama- was connected with the kingdom of the dead.
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