TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Prehistory of Greek Mythology and Poetics The Indo-European Heritage The “Cyclic” Tradition I. Father Heaven, Heaven’s Daughter, and the Divine Twins The rape of Nemesis Shape-shifting, rape, and corov" Heaven’s Incest Helen and Saran‰y ̈ ei[dolon and sávarn‰a The birth of the Dvine Twins II. Returning heroes The Dioscuri as rescuers Odysseus and the Phaeacian...

Abstract Traditionally, linguists have organized languages of the world as language families, such Indo-European, Dravidian and Sino-Tibetan. Within Indo-European family, they further into sub-families Germanic, Celtic Indo-Iranian. They do this by looking at similar-sounding words across commonality rules word formation sentence construction. In work, we make use computational approaches that ...

The article analyzes 22 details of the costume Kafirs and partially Kalasha Hindukush which have close analogies among related ancient Iranian-speaking peoples Pre-Islamic time. Indo-Scythians Kushans, who created large powers nearby in 1st c. BC — AD, most such analogies. These had an impact on clothing local Indo-Iranians and, probably, participated their ethnic history. infl uence Iranian pe...

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