id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5058 Proto-Indo-European mythology - Wikipedia .html text/html 19052 2201 75 Some myths are also securely dated to Proto-Indo-European times, since they feature both linguistic and thematic evidence of an inherited motif: a story portraying a mythical figure associated with thunder and slaying a multi-headed serpent to release torrents of water that had previously been pent up; a creation myth involving two brothers, one of whom sacrifices the other in order to create the world; and probably the belief that the Otherworld was guarded by a watchdog and could only be reached by crossing a river. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5058.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5058.txt