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societies as well and so the hypothesis has only limited utility in illuminating prehistoric Indo-European society. Cristiano Grottanelli states that while Dumézilian trifunctionalism may be seen in modern and medieval contexts, its projection onto earlier cultures is mistaken. Belier is strongly critical.
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reports a sense that Dumézil blurred the lines between the three functions and the examples that he gave often had contradictory characteristics, which had caused his detractors to reject his categories as nonexistent. John Brough surmises that societal divisions are common outside Indo-European
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or family of gods to represent it and the function of the god or gods matched the function of the group. Many such divisions occur in the history of Indo-European societies:
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Narasimhan VM, Anthony D, Mallory J, Reich D (September 6, 2019). "The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia".
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According to Jean Boissel, the first description of Indo-European trifunctionalism was by Gobineau, not by Dumézil. (
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Terje Leiren discerns another grouping of three Norse gods that may correspond to the trifunctional division:
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holding up wheat. Terje Leiren believes this grouping corresponds closely to the trifunctional division.
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populations and may have established a caste system, with themselves primarily in higher castes.
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has, possibly erroneously, been interpreted to show, from left to right, the one-eyed
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Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans: Studies in Indo-European Comparative Mythology
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the other powerful, unpredictable and priestly but rooted in the supernatural world.
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Benjamin W. Fortson. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction p. 32
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DumĂ©zil, Georges (1958). "The RĂ­gsĂŸula and Indo-European Social Structure." In:
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Decayed Gods: Origin and Development of Georges Dumézil's Idéologie Tripartite
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Gonda, J. (1974). Dumezil's Tripartite Ideology: Some Critical Observations.
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Classical Greece: the three divisions of the ideal society as described by
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Zeitschrift fĂŒr Religionswissenschaft (Journal of Religious Studies)
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Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
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Norse mythology: a guide to the Gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs
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had three main groups, corresponding to three distinct functions:
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The seduction of unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism
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concludes that the tripartite division may be an artefact and a
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by some mythographers, anthropologists and historians such as
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Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science
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Grottanelli, Cristiano. Dumézil and the Third Function. In
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Early Germanic society: the supposed division between the
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Narasimhan, Vagheesh M.; et al. (6 September 2019).
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family with certain archaeological cultures in Southern
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Les trois fonctions indo-européennes en GrÚce ancienne.
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Late Lowland Maya Civilization: Classic to Postclassic
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Supporters of the hypothesis include scholars such as
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Theorizing myth: Narrative, ideology, and scholarship
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The hypothesis has been criticised by the historians
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