==A kind of [[narrative-hero-slays-giant-reptile]] which involves a [[serpent-worm-eel-snake]] without legs== ## Formulas ### "Hero Slays Serpent" - *egwhent ogwhim (or rather *h3egwhim) ‘[he] slew the dragon’ (Watkins 1995: 301) - `PIE *Wágrō ʔógwhim gwhent` ("With the `*wágros` he killed the serpent") - `*(h₁e) gʷʰent h₁ógʷʰim` "(he) slew the serpent" [[watkins1995]] [[slade2008]] [[bozzone2017]] [[ivanov-vi-toporovIDK]] Storm God & Serpent [[vorobiova-2018]] ### "Split Serpent" [[slade2009]]