SCAN 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jacob Grimm, Georges Dumézil, Trifunctional Hypothesis
1 Feb 2018
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Study of language can be applied to the study of mythologies. We have to understand language as a structure. Explode something by pressing and opening your lips. Pick up the sound, compare sound to alternative sound, pick up meaning. Not lots of words begin with q. Thus what come after can be guesses easily. Meaning derive from the combination they were put in. In the less regard domain of fertility vs the higher domain of warrior. Group 1 ally with group 2 to fight group 3. Ongoing conflict one group going against another one. Explained by something happened in the past. 3rd estate rising up against the 1st estate. These are how things were since germanic-invasion. Since our ancestors came into your country. Historical grown right that comes from formal invasion. Ongoing tension find its way out of oral. Indo-european societies are characterized by tripartite ideology made of of three classes. Mytho express how the human mind works.
