the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>cjustus at mail.utexas.edu writes:

>Has anyone found when the concept of sin, hence forgiveness, enters the IE
>prayer record? >>

-- it certainly doesn't seem to be very important in the early stages.  In
fact, to the limited extent one can tell, the PIE-speakers seem to have been
a bunch of "right bastards" -- to use a British dialect term -- whose
religious concepts centered on boozing themselves into altered states and
bribing the gods with blood-sacrifices and flattery, when they weren't
bashing their neighbors over the head and stealing their cattle... 8-).