[[▲Narratives]] --- ``` > A primordial being is killed and dismembered. From his body the cosmos is made. [FIX] > > Man and his brother Twin sacrifice the first Cow. Sometimes Man sacrifices his brother. Twin becomes the first dead man, and the Lord of the Dead. ``` #finish [[lincoln1981]]p75 > At the beginning of time there were two brothers, twins, one named Man(`*Manu`, in Proto-Indo-European) and the other Twin (`*Yemo`). They traveled through the cosmos accompanied by a great cow. Eventually Man and Twin decided to create the world we now inhabit. To do this, Man had to sacrifice Twin (or, in some versions, the cow). From the parts of this sacrificed body, with the help of the sky gods (Sky Father, Storm God of War, Divine Twins), Man made the wind, the sun, the moon, the sea, earth, fire, and finally all the various kinds of people. Man became the first priest, the creator of the ritual of sacrifice that was the root of world order. > [[anthony2007]]p134 ## Indo-Iranian - [[rv10.90.6-16]] - Bundashishn. (In the Iranian text the narrative was influenced by Babylonian and Ṣabian astronomincal ideas.) - Expanded form: In the Indo-Iranian branch this narrative was preceeded by the [[narrative-pii-creation]]. ## Germanic - *Gylfaginning* 6-8 ## Roman ## Greek ## Russian ## Jewish - Result of secondary diffusion ## Chinese - Result of secondary diffusion