Indo-European fire rituals : cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony / Anders Kaliff and Terje Oestigaard.

"Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today's cremations on open pyres in Hinduism. E...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Authors:	Kaliff, Anders (Author), Oestigaard, Terje (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Subjects:	Fire > Folklore. Fire > Symbolic aspects. Rites and ceremonies > History. Indo-Europeans > Social life and customs. Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies > India. Bronze age > Scandinavia. Bronze age. Fire. Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies. Ritual. India. Scandinavia. Folklore. History.