Since we've talked about Ragnarok, let's try
something more...
Mythologists have explained the Mahabharata
saga as an epic developping of a Proto-Vedic "Ragnarok", with gods turned into
heroes.
I think the same was happened to Iliad. I think the
legend of Trojan War had many apocalyptical features.
1) It was a kind of "grand finale" of the epic
cycles
2) There's a great battle between two
people
3) Many of the Greek and Trojan heroes have divine
features: Ulysses was like the trickster Fire-God of all IE people (Agni, Loki,
Prometheus); Akhiles was like Bhishma (Heimdallr; the first to die; raised
by women); his son Pyrrhos was like Krishna (The Savior, Vishnu, Vidarr),
etc
4) A sort of apocalyptical fire: Troy was burned
(Greece); Surtur burned the World (Norse); Aurva, the Horse-Headed Submarine
Fire, or Shiva's third eye or Kalki (last incarnation of Vishnu) will destroy
the world (India); The Lake of Fire (Persian).
Later this "Proto-Greek Ragnarok" was
contaminated by historical events and turned into his epical shape.
I can give more details to to those who want to
discuss...
Joao SL
Rio