==[[▲Narratives]]== | [[father]], [[son]], [[kin-family]], [[mistakes-accidents]] > A father mistakenly kills his son who was raised apart [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology#Other_propositions) ## Scholarship [[miller-d1994]] [[ranero1996]] [[EIEC]]p533 "Son's Death" [[anderson-e2008]] ### Misc names for it used in Scholarship - A (Folkloric) Motif: "Death of a Son" - A Narrative structure: son's death, death of a son who is killed unwittingly by his father - Vater-Sohnes-Kampf Theme ## Branches - Celtic: Old Irish: [[cu-chulainn]] kills [[connla]] who was raised apart - Germanic: *[[hildebrandslied]]*: [[hildebrant]] kills [[hadubrant]] - Slavic: Russian: [[ilya-of-muron]] kills [[sokolnichek]] who was raised apart - Indo-Iranian: - Iranian: *[[shahnameh]]*: [[sohrab]] kills [[rostam]] - Indic: *[[mahabharata]]*: [[arjuna]] kills [[babhruvahana]] ## Analysis > "...the killing of the son effectively places limitations on the achievement of warrior prowess, isolates the hero from time by cutting off his generational extension, and also reestablishes the hero's typical adolescence by depriving him of a role (as father) in an adult world." ([[EIEC]]p533 "Son's Death")