Comparative Mythology of the Indo European Creation Myth

Comparative Mythology of the Indo European Creation Myth through the reading of various religious and historical texts and highlighting the connections. From Germania and Tacitus, to Odin and the Old Norse texts of the Poetic Edda. From Rome and Romulus and Remus to the Orphic Hymn to Zeus in Greece. And from the Abrahamic religions of the Near East, through Babylon and the Enuma Elis, to Persia and Zoroastrianism, and the Vedic culture with their Rig Veda. I talk through all this and more. Become a Patreon: Or consider a one-off donation via Paypal: Bibliographies/Citations Kern, Otto. 1968. Orphic Hymn to Zeus (Fragment 168), modified Ralph T. H. Griffith, trans., Hymns of the Rigveda (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1897) 2:517 ff., modified B. T. Anklesaria, trans., Zand-Akszih: Iranian or Greater Bundahisn (Bombay: Rahnumae Mazdayasnan Sabha, 1956), pp. 49, 53, 117, 119, 127, modified Jean I. Young, translation, Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954), pp. 34-35, modified James Darmesteter, translation, The Zend Avesta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887), 2:292 ff., modified Julius Eggeling, trans. Satapatha (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1:29-30.), modified Complete Works of Tacitus, trans. A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb (New York: Modern Library, 1942), B. O. Foster, trans. Livy (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1961), 1:25, heavily modified Slavic Contributions to the Biblical Apocrypha. I. The Old Church Slavonic texts of the Adam book, Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (Vienna), History of Philosophy class 24 (1893):60 Schayer, Stanislaus. “A Note on the Old Russian Variant of the Purushasfikta,“ Archiv Orientalni 7 (1935): 319 Lincoln, B. (2016) ‘The Indo-European Cattle-Raiding Myth Source : History of Religions , Vol . 16 , No . 1 ( Aug ., 1976 ), pp . 42-65 Published by : The University of Chicago Press’, 16(1), pp. 42–65. Anthony, D. W. (2010) The horse, the wheel, and language: How Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press. doi: Chapters ===================== 0:00 Introduction 1:51 The Indo European Creation Myth 7:13 The Indo European Creation Myth explained 9:21 Germanian Myth 10:18 Germania explained 11:45 Prose Edda 14:57 Old Norse explained 19:03 Rome: Romulus & Remus 21:08 Romulus and Remus explained 24:32 Zoroastrianism 27:57 Zend Avesta explained 29:22 Persian Greater Bundahishn 31:40 Persian Greater Bundahishn explained 34:41 The Rig Veda and Vedic Culture 37:08 The Purusa Hymn explained 38:23 Satapatha Brahmana 40:32 Satapatha Brahmana explained 41:28 Babylonian and Sumerian myth 44:26 Enuma Elis explained 45:56 The Bible 46:41 Genesis explained 47:49 Job 40 and 41 50:42 The Dove King 52:35 Greece 53:37 The Orphic Hymn to Zeus explained 53:55 Summary and next videos