A similar imagery is described by poet Euripides, in his play The Suppliants, lines 530-536: "Let the dead now be buried in the earth, / and each element return to the place from where it came to the body, / (...) the body to the ground; / for in no way did we get it / for our own, but to live our life in, and after that its mother earth must take it back URL the corpses now be covered with the earth, / From which each of them came forth to the light / Only to go back thither: (...) / And body to the earth". In: Lincoln, Bruce. Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013. p. 120. URL Category:Proto-Indo-European deities Category:Earth goddesses Category:Etymologies Category:Reconstructed words Category:Proto-Indo-European mythology Category:European mytholog
A similar imagery is described by poet Euripides, in his play The Suppliants, lines 530-536: "Let the dead now be buried in the earth, / and each element return to the place from where it came to the body, / (...) the body to the ground; / for in no way did we get it / for our own, but to live our life in, and after that its mother earth must take it back again"."Let the corpses now be covered with the earth, / From which each of them came forth to the light / Only to go back thither: (...) / And body to the earth". In: Lincoln, Bruce. Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013. p. 120. URL Category:Proto-Indo-European deities Category:Earth goddesses Category:Etymologies Category:Reconstructed words Category:Proto-Indo-European mythology Category:European mythology Category:Paganism Category:Religious studie
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