“There are people who, independently of the debate about Dumézil, have maintained that the scholarly work on the Indo-Europeans is simply a collection of myths.”

Proto-Indo-European mythology

“If what I claimed above is true, that the research on Indo-Europeans has not given rise to myths in the sense of sheer fiction, one might still suppose that it has given rise to another kind of myth—n...”

Proto-Indo-European mythology

“All of these exercises in scholarship ( = myth + footnotes) suffer from the same problem . They attempt to reach so far back into prehistory that no textual sources are available to control the inquir...”

Proto-Indo-European mythology

“It now strikes me that the attempt to reconstruct a prototypical (“Proto- Indo-European") form from which all attested variants can ultimately be derived may actually obscure much of what is most fasc...”

Proto-Indo-European mythology