Ten Thousand Suns Burning Passion
By: Charz
Tags: Amazonomachy, Burning Passion, Courage, Dere-dere, Hardihood, Hokuto no Ken, Indo-European, Livy, Mahabharata, Passionate Struggle, Plutarch, Raoh, Rome, Sabine, They say No when they mean Yes, Tsun-tsun, War of Functions
Category: Funny, Hokuto no Ken
Lovely Raoh ~ DD HnK ~E02
The Rape of the Sabine Women
The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families.
Recounted by Livy and Plutarch, it provided a subject for Renaissance and post-Renaissance works of art that combined a suitably inspiring example of the hardihood and courage of ancient Romans with the opportunity to depict multiple figures, including heroically semi-nude figures, in intensely passionate struggle.
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Indo-European Myth
Scholars have cited parallels between The Rape of the Sabine Women, the Æsir–Vanir War in Norse mythology, and the Mahabharata from Hindu mythology, providing support for a Proto-Indo-European “war of the functions”. Regarding these parallels, J. P. Mallory (Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans, 2005) states:
Basically, the parallels concern the presence of first-(magico-juridical) and second-(warrior) function representatives on the victorious side of a war that ultimately subdues and incorporates third function characters, for example, the Sabine women or the Norse Vanir. Indeed, the Iliad itself has also been examined in a similar light. The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third.
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