The Indo-European motif of “Celestial wedding” : the solar bride and lunar bridegroom

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Authors	BLAŽEK Václav
Year of publication	2022
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	WEKWOS
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
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Keywords	motif; sujet; celestial wedding; Vedic; Greek; Baltic traditions; etymology
Description	This contribution summarizes fragments of mythological texts from three Indo-European traditions: Vedic, Greek and Baltic, where appear traces of the motif of “Celestial wedding”. The parallel sujets identified in the texts are compared with results of the etymological analysis, applied to the mythological names of the main personages.
Related projects:	Podpora výzkumu studentů oborů obecná jazykověda (mgr., ph.d.), indoevropeistika (ph.d.), narratologie (ph.d.) a baltistika (mgr.)