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Vedic áśvamedha- and Gaulish IIPOMIIDVOS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Jaan Puhvel
Jaan Puhvel*
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Harvard University
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Extract

This paper is intended as a short linguistic contribution to the study of an important feature of Indo-European religious history: the sacrifice of the horse. There exists a copious and valuable bibliography on the subject, and I shall refrain from needless repetition of the materials and conclusions presented there. Only features of immediate importance for my comparison will be explicitly mentioned.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 31 , Issue 3-Part1: July-September , September 1955, pp. 353 - 354
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Copyright © 1955 by the Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 The reader is referred particularly to the following works: W. Koppers, Pferdeopfer und Pferdekult der Indogermanen, Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik 4.279-409 (1936); P.-E. Dumont, L'aśvamedha (Paris, 1927); J. von Negelein, Das Pferd im arischen Altertum (Königsberg, 1903); F. Schachermeyr, Poseidon und die Entstehung des griechischen Götterglaubens (Bern, 1950), esp. 65-108; E. Delebecque, Le cheval dans l'Iliade (Paris, 1951), esp. 239-44; H. A. Potratz, Das Pferd in der Frühzeit (Rostock, 1938); V. Hehn, Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere (Berlin, 1914); O. Keller, Die antike Tierwelt (Leipzig, 1909); R. Hindringer, Weiheross und Rossweihe (München, 1932); L. von Schroeder, Arische Religion (Leipzig, 1914-6).

2 An alternative analysis is *méy-dho-, cf. Ved. mayas- ‘strength, vigor’.

3 See also W. P. Lehmann's paper, Lín and laukr in the Edda, to appear in Germanic review.