![](publish/239875.jpg) Erick and his father @ Yellowstone Back in 2018, while attending the University of Houston for my BA, I was introduced to Indo-European Studies by my classics professor, [Casey Dué Hackney](hackney.md), who had studied under [Gregory Nagy](nagy-g.md). The idea that we could reveal an undiscovered past through the comparative method excited me so much I've been spending the past four years hoarding scholarship like a [dragon](serpent-worm-eel-snake.md) hoards gold. As I began researching, I noticed that there was a serious divide between IE Linguists and "cultural" PIE Scholars, as well as a divide between scholars in general and the lay public: - Many IE Linguists are unaware of the *sheer amount* of cultural reconstruction that has been done on the Proto-Indo-Europeans. This site was created in part to show scholars the wonders their colleagues have discovered. M. L. West and Mallory are just the tip of the iceberg, *two centuries* of scholarship awaits you. - Members of the public often don't know where to look for solid information on the Indo-Europeans, and scholars are almost universally unaware that some of these lay people are apart of a growing religious movement which could be termed "[Indo-European Spirituality](content-producers-and-practitioners.md)". This site aims to provide practioners with a guide to scholarly works, and to show scholars the impact their work has had on people's spiritual lives. For many polytheists Indo-European studies isn't just research, it's a means of dialogue between various branches of reconstructionist polytheisms. For example, the Ár nDraíocht Féin includes PIE [rituals](https://www.adf.org/grove-hearth-cultures/proto-indo-european) on their website, and the group has been described as follows: > Despite the Gaelic name, ADF Druidry actually encompasses all Indo-European religions, including Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Roman, Slavic, Gaulish, and Vedic religious practices. In that sense, ADF uses the term Druid as "a member of the Indo-European intelligentsia, especially of the clergy" or even more broadly as "a worshipper of Indo-European gods and goddesses". Strictly speaking, members of ADF are not only "druids", but are also members of related Indo-European religions which may have other terms for people in such clergy roles (e.g., gothi for clergy of ancient Norse religions). (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ár_nDra%C3%ADocht_Féin)) Everything from books, articles, presentations, talks, blog posts, comments on YouTube/hypothe.is/Facebook/Reddit, devotional websites, memes, to long forgotten works dragged out of dusty library basements will be included. Everything is separated, organized by topic, and interconnected. **When unhistorical and modern spiritual views are included, they will be treated as aspects of a New Religious Movement and designated under a separate header.** When my own ideas appear they will show up either as refernces to one of my works or--if they are small ideas--they will be notes tited "[[dodge-commentary]]". Given the amount of material, many of the entries are rough. In time however, this will be the #1 site for cultural PIE topics. If you are interested in helping develop it please [[add]]. This site is written in markdown and hosted by [Obsidian Publish](https://obsidian.md). There are very few sites that combine Digital Humanities and Indo-European Studies like this one. One phenomenal exception is the website for [[bjorn2017]]. ## Other [[~thoughts]] miscelaneous thoughts about this site and IE studies [[~research-tips]] This site gathers sundered fragments of a long dead people. Once a living culture, now a collection of digitized Cultural Artifacts, *An Archive Against Eternity*. This site is somewhat like the "Thematic Categories" Mallory and Adams used in their [1997 encylopedia](EIEC.md), or, [[Buck]]'s "Sementic Fields". [How to find pdfs online](~how-to-find-pdfs-online.md)