lupiherci

Updated: May 4, 2025

'But we do not forget that our whole theory of the development of the rite rests on a hypothesis which the lack of materials prevents us from demonstrating. He would explain Luperci as Lupiherci 'wolf-goats. Over this we need not linger; but how does all this prove Mannhardt to have returned to the method of comparing Greek with Vedic divine names, and arriving thence at some celestial phenomenon as the basis of a terrestrial myth?

Andrew Lang - Modern Mythology