*Perkʷūnos
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title:
*Perkʷūnos
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*Perkʷūnos is the reconstructed name of the weather god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. The deity was connected with fructifying rains, and his name was probably invoked in times of drought. In a widespread Indo-European myth, the thunder-deity fights a multi-headed water-serpent during an epic battle in order to release torrents of water that had previously been pent up. The name of his weapon, *mel-d-(n)-, which denoted both "lightning" and "hammer", can be reconstructed from the attested tr
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Weather-god in Proto-Indo-European mythology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Perk%CA%B7%C5%ABnos
date created:
2006-01-24T17:23:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T22:07:25Z
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