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| Dumezil suggests that among polytheists deities who be arranged in three levels: wise deities who rule (First Function), warrior deities (Second Function), and fertility deities (Third Function), which correspond to the three classes of human society--teachers (rulers), warriors, and peasants. The categories, borrowed from the anthropologist Georges Dumezil, are wisdom, war, and (in all imaginable forms) wealth. Dumezil sees the winter and end-of-winter maskers of modern Europe as, in part, a bastardization of this tradition. |
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