Building on Sacrifice. A Proto-Indo-European "Common Heritage"?
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ABSTRACT:
This short paper will propose some questions on the relationship of Building and Sacrifice in the Indo-European context and will search for its link to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) ideological complex. We will be bringing to attention the fact that many ancient, modern, and even some contemporary sources refer to traditions linked to (animal, including human) "sacrifice" (either ritual or symbolic) on the context of establishing a new building, either domestic, civil, or religious. We will be drawing from sources from India to America, and from the second millenium b.C. to modern times, in a cultural frame that we can loosely regard as Indo-European. I believe that the reapparition of similar schemas along the IE world might be derived from common PIE roots. The obvious differences among these themes is more easily explained because of the different contexts of their record, but some traces can still be seen in context, when broadening the range of the samples taken, but limited to indo-european speakers.
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