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...karinė, the Evening Star. Her cult originated from the Proto-Indo-European religion and was closely linked to Latvian [[Auseklis]], Greek Eos, Roman Aurora, an *Mallory, J. P.; Douglas Q. Adams (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Taylor & Francis. p. 148. ISBN 1884964982.

...would perhaps be more appropriate – and Æsir, which implies a common Proto-Indo-European origin for the Asura and the Æsir. ...m ''asura'' corresponds to the Zoroastrian word ''Ahura'', but has in that religion a different meaning. In Zoroastrianism the Ahuras are supreme, while the de

In Gallo-Roman religion, his name is known from the "Pillar of the Boatmen" (''Pilier des nautes'') ...with horns. As it predates all known representations of Cernunnos, and the Indo-European cultures associated with him, by several thousand years, it cannot be calle

...eiwos'', originally an adjective meaning "celestial" or "shining", a Proto-Indo-European (not synchronic Sanskrit)''vrddhi'' derivative from a root *diw "to shine", ==Vedic religion==

...ein, "to rule over." The masculine, Medon, "ruler", is a Homeric name. The Indo-European root, *me-, "measure", generates a large number of words. ...eolithic cave art. Very likely, the goddess precedes any Indo-European/non-Indo-European distinction.

In Greek ''drys'' signifies 'oak,' from an Indo-European root ''*derew(o)-'' 'tree' or 'wood.' Thus dryads are specifically the [[ny *[[wikipedia:Walter Burkert|Burkert, Walter]], 1985. ''Greek Religion'' (Cambridge:Harvard University Press)

...logical, Pan would be the Greek form of an ancient, possibly pre- or proto-Indo-European, horned-man deity, who would evolve into [[Cernunnos]] in the Celtic panthe ...Pan is Faunus, (see below), another version of his name, which is at least Indo-European. But accounts of Pan's genealogy are so varied that it must lie buried deep

...on and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion. ...navian ''Tusse'', fairy. More likely, it is related to a semantic field of Indo-European words, some meaning "phantom, vapor," as for example Lithuanian ''dvãse'',

'''Eurynome''' is a lunar Goddess of ancient Greek religion and a demon in modern demonology. ...in any Mycenaean women’s names, nor does –nome. The root of –nome is Proto-Indo-European *nem-, distribute, as in the Greek infinitive, nemein, “to distribute.”

...ion|Vedic]] traditions and also other branches of [[Indo-European religion|Indo-European mythologies]] show, the notion of demon has existed for many centuries.

...tian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the '''Old Religion'''. The veracity of Gardner's claims cannot be independently proven, and it ===Wicca as a magical religion===

...mons. As they always referred to demons as ''"he"'' (or equivalent) in all Indo-European languages it may be assumed that they believed only in male demons. This pa ...lid for demons, who might be supposed to want all pleasures that Christian religion denied to humans. Christianity considers sexual pleasure outside of the bon

Unlike some Greek gods, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She therefore seems to be a survival of a pre-Greek "great goddess" *Burkert Walter, ''Greek Religion'' 1985.

...m the Norns, the similar age-old fates, older than the gods, of a separate Indo-European tradition. *Jane Ellen Harrison, ''Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion'' 1903. Chapter VI, "The Maiden-Trinities"

...k ''kalyptein'' and Latin ''celare''="to hide, to cover" (all from [[Proto-Indo-European language|PIE]] ''[[wiktionary:*kel-|*kel-]]''). Hell appears in several [[mythology|mythologies]] and [[religion]]s in different guises, and is commonly inhabited by [[demon]]s and the [[s

...ce in that philosophy's questions cannot be answered empirically, and from religion in that philosophy allows no place for faith or revelation. However, these ...ics), [[physics]] (in the sense of the nature of matter and energy), and [[religion]] are all fields considered by philosophers.

...se ''álfr'', Middle High German ''elbe''. ''*Albiz'' may be from the Proto-Indo-European root ''*albh-'' meaning "white", from which also stems the Latin ''albus'' Some speculate that Vanir and elves belong to an earlier Nordic Bronze Age religion of Scandinavia, and were later replaced by the Æsir as main gods. Others (