Jakub Zielina
Studia Religiologica, Tom 46, Numer 4, 2013, s. 307 - 315
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.13.023.2096The One-eyed and One-handed Mythologem according to Georges Dumézil
This article tackles the topic of comparative Indo-European studies, for which the starting point is the work of Georges Dumézil. In his book Mithra-Varuna – Essai sur deux Representations indoeuropéennes de la Souveraineté (1940, FAC), the French historian compared the eponymous Vedic dvandva to numerous structures present in the myths of other peoples – for example, the Scandinavian pair Tyr-Odin and Baldur-Hodur, the Roman pair Mucius Scaevola and Horatius Cocles, the Celtic pair Nuada and Lugh, and many others. A signifi cant detail is the attribution of the gods – the first is often lacking a hand (or both hands), and the other is one-eyed (or blind).
Jakub Zielina
Studia Religiologica, Tom 47, Numer 1, 2014, s. 49 - 65
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.14.004.2377Slavic Variants of the One-handed and One-eyed Mythologem
Georges Dumézil distinguished several structures present independently in the myths of many Indo-European peoples. One of them is the “one-handed and one-eyed” structure. Our goal is to determine whether this was also present in Slavic folklore