Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions
The paper compares the periods of asceticism or privation that precede journeys to heaven, or transitions to some other sort of salvation, in four narratives: Mahabharata book 3, Odyssey books 5-6, the Wasting Sickness of Cuchulainn, and the story of the Buddha's enlightenment. It is argued tha...
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description | The paper compares the periods of asceticism or privation that precede journeys to heaven, or transitions to some other sort of salvation, in four narratives: Mahabharata book 3, Odyssey books 5-6, the Wasting Sickness of Cuchulainn, and the story of the Buddha's enlightenment. It is argued that all derive from an early Indo-European proto-narrative, probably marked by the pentadic ideology, to which the Sanskrit epic offers the closest approximation. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:ca22addd-9b41-4ec2-a117-008fce83e56c2022-03-27T07:05:08ZAsceticism in some Indo-European traditionsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ca22addd-9b41-4ec2-a117-008fce83e56cHellenic (Classical Greek) literaturePrehistoric and primitive religionsReligions of the Indian subcontinentCognitive anthropologyHistory of the ancient worldBuddhismEnglishOxford University Research Archive - Valet2005Allen, NThe paper compares the periods of asceticism or privation that precede journeys to heaven, or transitions to some other sort of salvation, in four narratives: Mahabharata book 3, Odyssey books 5-6, the Wasting Sickness of Cuchulainn, and the story of the Buddha's enlightenment. It is argued that all derive from an early Indo-European proto-narrative, probably marked by the pentadic ideology, to which the Sanskrit epic offers the closest approximation. |
spellingShingle | Hellenic (Classical Greek) literature Prehistoric and primitive religions Religions of the Indian subcontinent Cognitive anthropology History of the ancient world Buddhism Allen, N Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions |
title | Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions |
title_full | Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions |
title_fullStr | Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions |
title_full_unstemmed | Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions |
title_short | Asceticism in some Indo-European traditions |
title_sort | asceticism in some indo european traditions |
topic | Hellenic (Classical Greek) literature Prehistoric and primitive religions Religions of the Indian subcontinent Cognitive anthropology History of the ancient world Buddhism |
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