Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel. Part Two: Mythology and Religion

Edited by John Greppin and Edgar C. Polomé. — Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997. — 282 p. — (Journal of Indo-European studies. Monograph series, 21). — ISBN 0-941694-55-0.Contents: John A.C. Greppin, For an Indo-Europeanist, Upon His Retirement From One of His Students. Francoise Bader, Voix Divines: Réflexions Métalinguistiques Indo-Européennes. Walter L. Brennemann, Jr., The Drunken and the Sober: A Comparative Study of Lady Sovereignty in Irish and Indic Contexts. Miriam Robbins Dexter, Born of the Foam: Goddesses of River and Sea in the ‘Kingship in Heaven’ Myth. Dorothy Disterheft, Irish Evidence for Indo-European Royal Consecration. Angelique Gulermovich Epstein, The Morrigan and the Valkyries. Stephanie W. Jamison, A Gāndharva Marriage in the Odyssey: Nausicaa and her Imaginary Husband. C. Scott Littleton & Linda A. Malcor, Did the Alans Reach Ireland? A Reassessment of the “Scythian” References in the Lebor Gabāla E̅renn. Linda A. Malcor, First Bath: The “Washing of the Child” Motif in Christian Art, or What ’s a Nice jewish Boy Doing in an Indo-European Tale Like This? Dean A. Miller, In Search of Indo-European Inter-Functional War. Edgar C. Polomé, Some Reflections on the Vedic Religious Vocabulary. William Sayers, Psychological Warfare in Vinland (Eiríks saga rauða). Udo Strutynski, The Sins of Siegfried: Echoes of Indo-European War Crimes in the Nibelungenlied and its Analogues.