Il mito vedico di Śunaḥśepa tra sacrifici umani e fondazioni di genealogie

Abstract

The story of Śunaḥśepa is one of the most important vedic myths and it centres three basic mythemes: the presence of the death, a very life and the wish of transcendency. This myth tells us the story of a man earthly life, tells us about the overcoming of the death and about a upper life. The myth is not a story of gods or a cosmic story, it tells us events, it is a iniziatory myth, wich is its likely historical beginning.