Trito-Myth & Self-Sacrifice

Christ as IE trope: Yama, Donn, Odin — the first self-sacrificing monarch and passage to the afterlife.

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Mar 31, 2026
"Dead" Sweetly Means "In the Sky"
Deity, Death, day, *Tiwas (Germanic deity who gave their name to Tuesday),... all derive from the Ancient Ukrainian word for sky *Dyeus. That's rig...
Mar 31, 2026
Bruce Lincoln's Afterlife Passage Story
The American theologian Bruce Lincoln parsed the totality of Indo-European cultures' accounts of passage to the afterlife. Lincoln deduced: 'The pi...
Mar 31, 2026
Christ as IE Trope -- The First Self-Sacrificing Monarch
The core trope in Christianity is of a human sacrificing themself, so that those who live (and die) after them can be saved. Christ is the first Ch...
Mar 31, 2026
Donn as Irish Yama -- Lord of Death, Gatherer of Mankind
'Donn, who is described as king of the Sons of Mil, may then be compared with Yama himself, king of the Fathers, the first of men that died, the fi...

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Trito-Myth & Self-Sacrifice

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"Dead" Sweetly Means "In the Sky"

Bruce Lincoln's Afterlife Passage Story

Christ as IE Trope -- The First Self-Sacrificing Monarch

Donn as Irish Yama -- Lord of Death, Gatherer of Mankind