List of Figures, Charts, and Tables Introduction Laura Massetti 1 Ritual Speech in the Neo-Phrygian Funerary Curse Formulae Milena Anfosso 2 Homo homini lupus : Anatolian Echoes of Indo-European Ideology Michele Bianconi 3 Upholding Heaven and Earth, Upholding the Cosmos José Luis García Ramón 4 The Myth of Baldr's Death and the Vedic Wounded Sun The Old Norse Theonyms Nanna Neps-dóttir('Maiden Sky's-Daughter') and Hðr('Darkness') in Germanic and Indo-European Perspective Riccardo Ginevra 5 Homeric and the Unraveling of an Unmetrical Verse Stefan Höfler 6 Mirror Images and Cross(dress)ing Some Indo-European Intersections between the Gesta Danorumand the Viraa Parvan of the Mahabharata Stephanie W. Jamison 7 Thoughts of Gathic Beginnings and Beginnings of Gathic Thoughts Joshua T. Katz 8 From Kenning to Insult: Old Norse, Old Irish and Russian Carrions and Their Indo-European Background Claire Le Feuvre 9 Form in Latin and Umbrian Sacral Verse Angelo O. Mercado 10 Where All the Killed Dragons Graze: Luw. ala/i- wilus(a)- , and the PIEConcept of the Netherworld Rostislav Oreshko 11 Hecate and Her Dogs Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen 12 An Underlying Divinatory Structure Common to Bharata and Semonides Kenneth Zysk Index.