{"product_id":"mitravaruna-an-essay-on-two-indoeuropean-representations-of-sovereignty-9780942299120","title":"Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty\u003c\/strong\u003e by Dumezil, Georges. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780942299120.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorges Dumézil, founder of the new comparative mythology, discovered that all Indo-European religions are articulated according to three hierarchical functions: sacred sovereignty, force, and fecundity. In Mitra-Varuna he develops this general theory but concentrates on the most important of these functions: sovereignty. In particular, Dumézil shows that religious and\/or political sovereignty - from India to Rome, from Iran to Scandinavia - is conceived as a dual category: on the one hand the magician-king (raj, rex), on the other the jurist-priest (brahman, flamen). Mitra-Varuna, combines extraordinarv scholarship and theoretical discovery with the pleasures of storytelling. A founding work of comparative, mythology, it is today a seminal essay in the archaeology of power.Distributed for Zone Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44923660730421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0942299124","price":225.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0942299124_975dcfee-81a6-4674-aca1-b9174874f626.jpg?v=1778874348","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mitravaruna-an-essay-on-two-indoeuropean-representations-of-sovereignty-9780942299120","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}