Speaking and answering in traditional epic narrative
Although they are today read in books containing a stable and...
Father Sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit
In the late stone age, about seven or eight millennia ago, the...
Assi Ghat sanskrit mural
This mural is to be found in one of the winding back...
Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English
The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...
Immortals and their ambrosia
In Greek literature the gods are known as the ἄμβροτοι...
Valhalla and Valkyries
In Norse myth valhöll (the Old Norse term for valhalla) is the hall...
The wings of man's mind
What ancient Greek and Sanskrit can tell us about our thinking...
Sun and Moon in Germanic myth
The following passage is translated from the Prose Edda,...
Jörmungandr the world-snake
In Norse mythology the earth is surrounded by an ocean encircled by...