From: G&P
Message: 61674
Date: 2008-11-16
> As per accepted understanding, PIE kings never performed religious functions.
Not accepted by me, Kishore. I rather think “king” was far more religious than political, in what we can reconstruct of PIE society. This idea goes back to Benveniste, and you’ll find it in Mallory.
Where is your source of evidence that your idea is the “accepted” one?
Peter