Varnas, colours, and functions

The standard Dumézilian position has been that the three functions of Indo-European ideology were correlated with the colours white, red and »dark« (green, blue or black, occasionally replaced by yellow). Having previously argued that the ideology was essentially pentadic rather than triadic, the au...

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Main Author: Allen, Nick (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Diagonal-Verlag 2012
In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 1998, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-178
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