The hunters (Indo-European proto-myths: The storm god, The good king, The mighty hunter)

The comparative material for the ruler-warrior function, the second function within Dumézil's tripartite canon, is rich in theistic, social, and military comparands. My effort to extend this work to hunting, a natural pastime of royalty and of warriors, has led to a new hypothesis regarding hunting bands of horseless warriors. These seem to have originally been non-Indo-European groups that have been brought into the Indo-European fold by a …