Re: Res: [tied] Baldr

From: etherman23
Message: 62370
Date: 2009-01-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> This conditional "invulnerability" seems very similar to Greek
Achilles and Ajax; Ossetic Soslan, Germanic Siegfried-SigurDr. A
common PIE trait? Dumezil compared Baldr to Indic Aryaman, a god
responsible for marriages and social ties. His death ignites the end
of the world.

Perhaps also the Green Knight.