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Eastern Mythology: Critical Essay by C. Scott Littleton

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SOURCE: "The 'Kingship in Heaven' Theme," in Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans: Studies in Indo-European Comparative Mythology, edited by Jaan Puhvel, University of California Press, 1970, pp. 83-121.

In the essay that follows, Littleton studies various versions of the widespread and pervasive motif of the divine king, and concludes that the theme does not have a single Indo-European origin.

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