[[buck-20-warfare-and-hunting]] [[warriors-individual]] ## By Gender [[warriors-male]] [[warriors-female]] ## By Associated Animal [[bear-men]] [[wolf-men]] ## Dual Aspect: dying young - The youthful warrior knows he may die, and even desires death insofar as it provides [[fame-renown-glory-memory-heard-tales]]. - Death makes us human, makes us **mortal** (PIE [`*mr̥tós`](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mr̥tós) from [`√*mer`](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mer-) 'to die'). So it was fitting when the Old Indic warriors were called *márya* "young warrior" or *marut* "chariot warrior". The mortal ones. - Vegetal imagery in Homer about achilles etc. ## Narratives [[stone-bershadsky-debiasi-frame-nagy-g2018-06-06]]