On the Creation of Domestic Animals in Proto-Indo European Mythology
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ABSTRACT:
At the beginning there were two men and a bull. These men were twin brothers, Manu and Yemo. Manu was the First Priest, Yemo was the First King. Manu sacrificed his brother, dismembered his body and with his parts he formed the world. Then he sacrificed the bull, dismembered its body and with his parts Manu created edible plants and domestic animals. Yemo, the first dead man, became King of the Dead, and his realm he opened for all those who followed. This is, according to Lincoln, the Proto-Myth of Creation among the Proto-Indo Europeans (PIE). As soon as these PIE evolved into the different Indo-European (IE) peoples, this myth changed, evolved, adapted itself to different environs, to different points of view, until it became almost completely disguised into folklore and religion. But this original proto-myth underlies all IE cosmologies, every IE creation myth, every IE sacrifice. For sacrifice is, according to this cosmovision, the act of reunification of this Cosmos that was once divided.
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