Agni-VĀyu-Āditya: The Indo-European Trinity of Fire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780648607212)

This abrégé of Jacob's 2005 study Ātman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans (Hildesheim: Georg Olms) focuses on the cosmological insights that inform ancient Indo-European religions and, in particular, on the most significant trinity worshipped by the ancient Indo-Āryans - Agni-Vāyu-Āditya - which represents the forms that the cosmic fire takes in the underworld of Earth before it is installed as the sun in the Heaven of our universe. This is not a sociological Trinity, as Dumézil's studies, for example, would lead one to believe. Rather, it is an understanding of the divine fire that informs the macrocosm as well as the human microcosm.

The present essay should thus serve to correct the misleading sociological orientations of Dumézilian comparative mythology. At the same time, it will give the reader a glimpse into the extraordinary depth of vision of the prisca theologia of the Indo-Europeans.

Author: Alexander Jacob
ISBN-10: 0648607216
ISBN-13: 9780648607212
Publisher: Manticore Press
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2024
Pages: 86
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d