The study provides a historical-comparative analysis of the linguistic and textual data attested in various Indo-European traditions in connection with beings associated with WATER and described as monstrous creatures, cosmic strangers and/or ontological others. On the basis of these entities’ shared features, a conceptual system is reconstructed, which nicely fits into the set of beliefs that may be referred to as “Indo-European ecologies”.
Ginevra, R., Strangers from the waters - serpents, canids, horses and others: Indo-European conceptions of human ecology and the CENTRE-PERIPHERY spatial schema, in Larsson, J., Olander, T., Jørgensen, A. (ed.), Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk – Snakes and Water, Stockholm University Press, Stockholm 2025: 7- 48. 10.16993/bcu.b [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/324596]
Strangers from the waters - serpents, canids, horses and others: Indo-European conceptions of human ecology and the CENTRE-PERIPHERY spatial schema
Ginevra, Riccardo
2025
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The study provides a historical-comparative analysis of the linguistic and textual data attested in various Indo-European traditions in connection with beings associated with WATER and described as monstrous creatures, cosmic strangers and/or ontological others. On the basis of these entities’ shared features, a conceptual system is reconstructed, which nicely fits into the set of beliefs that may be referred to as “Indo-European ecologies”.
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