How did our IndoEuropean ancestors think of death? Where did they go? How did they get there? Who ruled this world? But most importantly who decided when they would die? Here I present the mythology around death and the IndoEuropean Goddess that was a representation of it, Kolyo the Coverer.

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► References
Güntert, H. Kalypso Studies of the history of meaning in the field of IndoEuropean languages. 1919
Lincoln, B. Death, War, and Sacrifice. The University of Chicago Press. 1991

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Who were the IndoEuropeans?
2:54 IndoEuropean Cosmology
8:31 How the IndoEuropeans viewed Death
11:27 The King of the Otherworld
15:17 What was the Otherworld?
21:57 The Goddess of Death
25:25 The Bonds of Death
33:33 The Journey to Death