Priest-King of the Warriors and Witch-Queen of the Others. Cargo Cult and Witch Hunt in Indo-European Myth and Reality

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/141677" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/141677</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9342-2019" target="_blank" >10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9342-2019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Priest-King of the Warriors and Witch-Queen of the Others. Cargo Cult and Witch Hunt in Indo-European Myth and Reality

Original language description

In this book an interpretation of two Indo-European mythological themes within their complex context is presented. Especially historical and socio-cognitive aspects of their background are considered. By means of this approach an innovative interpretation of an otherwise traditional mythological structure is proposed as well as a new one introduced. In the first part of the book the matter of well-known Indo-European creation myth is discussed. It is hypothetically concluded that Proto-Indo-European cultural area originated in prehistoric Cargo Cult. Pre-Proto-Indo-European hunters-gatherers reacted to the appearance of technologically advanced Afro-Asiatic farmers in a way similar to a response of traditional societies abruptly confronted with the presence of the western industrial world. Certain motives and themes of Indo-European creation myth are then interpreted as possible semantic relics of Pre-Proto-Indo-European Cargo Cult ideology. In the second part an attempt to present the brand new Indo-European mythological structure, so called witch-hunting myth, is made. Various local manifestations of narrative dealing with the conflict of elites with the demonic army led by a female witch are analyzed. A basic sujet pattern is identified and then interpreted as an outcome of archaic Indo-European societies’ social and gender setting.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

9788021093416

Number of pages

166

Publisher name

Masaryk University Press

Place of publication

Brno

UT code for WoS book

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