Fri, 29 Apr 2005

Ancient Oaths

is the title of a post today from Laudator Temporis Acti, and an excellent essay it is, too! He analyzes various oaths from the Greco-Roman world in terms of structure, not just content, and (perhaps inadvertently, as he never mentions the connection) ties them into a tripartite structure so common in Indo-European heathen practice (see this article on Georges Dumézil for more info). Read it, and learn.

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