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32: 113: 466:("to encompass, cover"). Worunos may have personified the firmament, or dwelled in the night sky. In both Greek and Vedic poetry, Ouranos and Varuna are portrayed as "wide-looking", bounding or seizing their victims, and having or being a heavenly "seat". Although many have said the etymology was untenable. In the three-sky cosmological model, the celestial phenomena linking the nightly and daily skies is embodied by a "Binder-god": the Greek 422:. In both accounts, an authority figure forces the evil entity into submission by inserting his hand into the being's orifice (in Fenrir's case the mouth, in Ahriman's the anus) and losing or impairing it. Fenrir and Ahriman fulfill different roles in their own mythological traditions and are unlikely to be remnants of a Proto-Indo-European "evil god"; nonetheless, it is clear that the "binding myth" is of Proto-Indo-European origin. 511:, each having its own deities, social associations and colors (white, dark and red, respectively). Deities of the diurnal sky could not transgress the domain of the nocturnal sky, inhabited by its own sets of gods and by the spirits of the dead. For instance, Zeus cannot extend his power to the nightly sky in the 270:
The concept of Mitra as brahman and Varuna as the king of the Gandharva is a particularly suggestive formula. The Gandharva normally live in a mysterious world of their own, beyond the darkness into which Indra smote the singular Gandharva for the greater good of the brahman. In Varuna's legend, the
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proposed a groundbreaking theory that Mitra should be interpreted as the personification of contracts. This theory was based on linguistic and sociological evidence, and was widely accepted by scholars of the time. However, in the following years, the concept of the contract evolved, and it became
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Other "coupled notions" that link Mitra and Varuna in Indian religious thought include Mitra as the day and Varuna as the night, Mitra as the right and Varuna as the left (in accordance with the view of the right as the strong or just side), and Mitra taking that which has been well sacrificed to
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In his work "Doctrine du Sacrifice", French scholar Sylvain Levi noted a passage from the Satapatha Brahmana that contrasts Mitra and Varuna as intelligence and will, decision and act, and waning and waxing moon. Levi argues that the disparity between interpretations of these passages proves that
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Mitra represents a sovereign under his reasoning aspect, luminous, ordered, calm, benevolent, and priestly. Varuna, on the other hand, represents a sovereign under his attacking aspect, dark, inspired, violent, terrible, and warlike. Some expressions that assimilate "this world" to Mitra and "the
383:, both ritually and mythically. This aspect of his character has been the subject of much scholarly debate, with some scholars arguing that it reflects the violent and brutal nature of early Indo-Iranian societies, while others see it as a symbolic representation of the cosmic order. 235:, he considered it to have been composed of two distinct elements – Mitra and Varuna – this divine pair represented different aspects of sovereignty, with Mitra embodying reason, order, and benevolence, and Varuna symbolizing violence, darkness, and inspiration. 364:
The theory of Mitra as a god of contracts was also disputed by scholars who favored a naturalistic interpretation of Indo-Iranian mythology. Nonetheless, Meillet's theory remains relevant and important for the study of Indo-Iranian culture and religion.
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reward, while Varuna takes that which is badly sacrificed to chastise. These expressions define homologous points on the two levels of understanding that can be recognized through figures like Numa and Romulus in Roman religious thought.
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nature of priesthood, while the other is involved in religious sanction to human society (especially contracts), a theory supported by common features in Iranian, Roman, Scandinavian and Celtic traditions.
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Gandharva intervene at a tragic moment to restore his failed virility with a magic herb, just as the first Luperci put an end to the sterility of the women Romulus had abducted.
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Dumezil proposes an analogy with yin and yang provides a useful framework for understanding the dialectic of Mitra-Varuna. Mitra may be seen as light and Varuna as dark.
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clear that the notions of legal contract and emotional friendship were actually two distinct meanings, both of which were derived from an earlier, more complex concept.
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they are products of imagination, but they nevertheless provide an excellent definition of two different ways of regarding and directing the world.
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He proposes many traits of them and their practices such as gandarvas being associated with horse riding and flamens prohibited from it
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with the flamens. Under this both Romulus and Remus had elements of Yemo in them and Numa and Romulus had elements of Manu.
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The king as the high priest would have been the central figure in establishing favourable relations with the other world.
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Varuna is frenzied and aggressive, a "terrible sovereign" which comes first, and Mitra is a slow, majestic sovereign.
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were from each one respectively, and reflective of forms of debt dating back to the Proto-Indo-Europeans
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other world" to Varuna have been the subject of much commentary and can be understood in this context.
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Varuna is seen as a binder and Mitra as an unbinder. It is proposed that the two Roman forms of debt
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sees this as a common myth of Mitra, and contrasting with the Eye loss myth of Varuna.
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suggested that the religious function was represented by a duality, one reflecting the
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One of the most influential interpretations of Varuna was proposed by French scholar
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Dumezil proposes that there were two dialectical priesthoods of *bhelgh-men- (
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Another important aspect of Varuna's character is his association with
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is a proposed deity or dyad of deities suggested to have existed in
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in his essay Mitra-Varuna. The reconstruction is linked to his
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notes similarities between the Norse myth in which the god
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is believed by Dumezil to descend from this original dyad.
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or transitional sky embodies the gate or frontier (
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Janus
Proto-Indo-Europeans
Zeus
Ouranos
Dyēus
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Tyr
Odin
Dyēus
Scaevola
Cocles
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Irish
Nuada
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Trifunctional hypothesis
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