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@book{1590336, author = {Cigán, Michal}, address = {Brno}, edition = {1.}, howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"}, language = {eng}, location = {Brno}, isbn = {978-80-210-9341-6}, publisher = {Masaryk University Press}, title = {Priest-King of the Warriors and Witch-Queen of the Others. Cargo Cult and Witch Hunt in Indo-European Myth and Reality}, year = {2019} }
TY - BOOK ID - 1590336 AU - Cigán, Michal PY - 2019 TI - Priest-King of the Warriors and Witch-Queen of the Others. Cargo Cult and Witch Hunt in Indo-European Myth and Reality VL - Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, sv. č. 492 PB - Masaryk University Press CY - Brno SN - 9788021093416 N2 - In this book an interpretation of two Indo-European mythological themes within their complex context is presented. Especially historical and socio-cognitive aspects of their background are considered. By means of this approach an innovative interpretation of an otherwise traditional mythological structure is proposed as well as a new one introduced. In the first part of the book the matter of well-known Indo-European creation myth is discussed. It is hypothetically concluded that Proto-Indo-European cultural area originated in prehistoric Cargo Cult. Pre-Proto-Indo-European hunters-gatherers reacted to the appearance of technologically advanced Afro-Asiatic farmers in a way similar to a response of traditional societies abruptly confronted with the presence of the western industrial world. Certain motives and themes of Indo-European creation myth are then interpreted as possible semantic relics of Pre-Proto-Indo-European Cargo Cult ideology. In the second part an attempt to present the brand new Indo-European mythological structure, so called witch-hunting myth, is made. Various local manifestations of narrative dealing with the conflict of elites with the demonic army led by a female witch are analyzed. A basic sujet pattern is identified and then interpreted as an outcome of archaic Indo-European societies’ social and gender setting. ER -
CIGÁN, Michal. \textit{Priest-King of the Warriors and Witch-Queen of the Others. Cargo Cult and Witch Hunt in Indo-European Myth and Reality}. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2019, 166 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, sv. č. 492. ISBN~978-80-210-9341-6.
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