The Indo-European Tribal King

“‘The Indo-European had tribal kings, who were thought of as stretching (*reg-) a rod to govern the people, and who were responsible for the fertility of the soil and the prosperity of the whole tribe. The inauguration of the Monarch was a fertility rite, perhaps with the notion of a goddess of fertility whom the Monarch must wed. Their power (Mana) and vigour…‘”

Source: The M-N- Sound · Substack “Trumpian ‘Right’ Monarchist Shift”

Scholarly passage connecting *reg- (to stretch a rod / to rule) with the Monarch’s Mana. The two cryptotypes (M-N- and Rt-) converge in the figure of the king.

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