The artist formerly known as Mr Caws states:
>I agree generally. I associate the warrior god specifically with
>thunder more than the underworld, though. I do think the two are
>definetly linked by their mutual opposition.
First, I think that maybe what confuses the link between the war-thunder god
and the underworld involves the constant struggle for him to overthrow
*Dye:us' rulership of the overworld. This struggle is more likely to be in
the sky, since *PerkWnos has to come to *Dye:us in order to do battle. That
would explain, mythologically, why storms form (ie: The sky battle between
*Dye:us and *PerkWnos). Osiris would be the Egyptian equivalent of *PerkWnos
and in the Kemetic traditions we can see clearer an ancient struggle between
sky and underworld.
Secondly, I've noticed that there might have been Steppe traditions of a
thunderbird that got mixed up in this somehow to produce the IE mythos. This
would make *PerkWnos act more like a sky god than an underworld god all the
more.
>The serpent monster is certainly malevolent in many ways, but I think he is
>more ambiguous as natural death god, associated with >sorcery and wisdom in
>addition to general evilness.
How so? Examples in myth?
>ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/mythology/telmyth.html
I'll check this out when I get the chance.
- gLeN
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