{"product_id":"the-feast-of-immortality-tom-billinge-9781968394974","title":"The Feast of Immortality: A Study in Comparative Indo-European Mythology","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Immortality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is Georges Dumézil's first major work and the earliest full articulation of a comparative method that would later define Indo-European mythology as a serious discipline. Originally submitted as his doctoral thesis in 1924 and long unavailable to Anglophone readers, this volume appears here in English for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt its center is the Indo-European \"Cycle of Ambrosia,\" a mythic complex surrounding the divine drink of immortality - amṛta, ambrosia, the beer of the  sir, the ale of the Tuatha Dé Danann - and the rites, conflicts, and cosmological distinctions it sustains. Dumézil demonstrates that this cycle is not an incidental motif, but a coherent and deeply conserved structure marking a boundary between mortals and immortals across the Indo-European world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on Indian epic literature, Germanic Eddic poetry, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Slavic, Iranian, Armenian, and lesser-known traditions, Dumézil reconstructs the shared mythic sequence underlying these diverse cultures. He advances a rigorous methodological argument: that comparative mythology must focus not on isolated themes or divine names, but on complex narrative cycles whose internal structure excludes chance or simple borrowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book culminates in an examination of the ritual dimension of ambrosia - festivals, sacrificial feasts, and ceremonial reenactments - situating myth and rite within a single symbolic economy of sustenance, sovereignty, and immortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Billinge,Georges Dumézil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1968394974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968394974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sanctus Arya Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.92d","brand":"Tom Billinge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447309480191,"sku":"9781968394974","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89e1622b-9c87-438d-8237-a25df56787fa.jpg?v=1777230248","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-feast-of-immortality-tom-billinge-9781968394974","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}