Varnas, colours, and functions
The standard Dumezilian view correlates the three functions in Indo-European ideology with the colours white, red and "dark" (green, blue or black). The theory that the ideology was pentadic, not triadic, prompts a reconsideration, based on the four varnas of Hindu social ideology, the fou...
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diagonal-Verlag Marburg
1998
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