Ten Gods ― A New Approach to Defining the Mythological Structures of the Indo-Europeans

Emily Lyle is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh and has been engaged in exploring custom and belief, mythology and folk narratives, and ballads and songs, at this university since 1970. Her many publications include Archaic Cosmos: Polarity, Space and Time (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990) and Fairies and Folk: Approaches to the Scottish Ballad Tradition (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007). She is President of the Traditional Cosmology Society and the Ritual Year Working Group of SIEF (Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore) and is a Director of the International Association for Comparative Mythology. She received an MA (Hons) from the University of St Andrews in 1954 and a PhD from the University of Leeds in 1967, and has held Fellowships at the Radcliffe (later Bunting) Institute and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University; the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh; and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.