Triple deity
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| + | "The celebration of the life-thresholds was from early times in the hands of woman and was repressed comparatively recently. That is why the [[Three Fates]], the [[Three Graces]] and the [[Three Furies]] were said to be sisters. When the women presided over the blessing of the child at birth and who acted as midwives they served the Fates, when they performed the traditional dances and songs for blessing weddings and acted as bridesmaids they served the Graces and when they fulfilled the role of professional mourners and psychopomp they served the Furies."--Sholem Stein | ||
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| - | + | A '''triple deity''' (sometimes referred to as threefold, tripled, triplicate, tripartite, triune or triadic) is a [[deity]] associated with the number [[3 (number)|three]]. Such deities are common throughout world [[mythology]]; the number three has a long history of mythical associations. [[C. G. Jung]] considered the arrangement of deities into triplets an [[archetype]] in the [[history of religion]]. | |
| - | The '''Trifunctional hypothesis''', forwarded by [[French people|French]] [[mythography|mythographer]] [[Georges Dumézil]] from 1929, postulates an ''idéologie tripartite'' ("tripartite ideology") in prehistoric [[Proto-Indo-European society]], reflected in the existence of classes or castes, those of [[clergy|priests]], [[warrior class|warriors]], and [[commoners]] (farmers or pastoralists), corresponding to the three functions of the [[sacred|sacral]], the [[war|martial]] and the [[economic]], respectively. | + | |
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| - | *[[Caste]] | + | |
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| - | *[[Proto-Indo-European religion]] | + | |
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"The celebration of the life-thresholds was from early times in the hands of woman and was repressed comparatively recently. That is why the Three Fates, the Three Graces and the Three Furies were said to be sisters. When the women presided over the blessing of the child at birth and who acted as midwives they served the Fates, when they performed the traditional dances and songs for blessing weddings and acted as bridesmaids they served the Graces and when they fulfilled the role of professional mourners and psychopomp they served the Furies."--Sholem Stein |
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A triple deity (sometimes referred to as threefold, tripled, triplicate, tripartite, triune or triadic) is a deity associated with the number three. Such deities are common throughout world mythology; the number three has a long history of mythical associations. C. G. Jung considered the arrangement of deities into triplets an archetype in the history of religion.
