%0 Journal Article
%T The One-eyed and One-handed Mythologem according to Georges Dumézil
%A Zielina, Jakub
%J Studia Religiologica
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/20844077SR.13.023.2096
%N Volume 46, Issue 4
%P 307-315
%K Comparative studies, Indo-European, Georges Dumézil, Mithra-Varuna, one-handed, one-eyed
%@ 0137-2432
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/mitlogem-jednooki-jednoreki-w-ujeciu-georgesa-dumezila
%X 
	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).