INDO-EUROPEAN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND BROTHERHOODS
INDO-EUROPEAN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND BROTHERHOODS

Summary/Abstract: Indo-European antiquity developed due to war, the means by which it conquered the world. All Indo-European civilizations had a cult for military art, which was exercised as a profession, with numerous leading social classes in all these civilizations. For the Indo-Europeans everything was decided by war, which took place both among the gods and among the people. Military brotherhoods were the first military associations to achieve a team spirit, solidarity, a kinship through the practice of military art. It is known that the Celts practised the so-called blood brotherhood, which consisted of a twin ritual of people who were not blood related. The use of animal totems, especially predators, was for the Indo-Europeans a way of transferring the effective predator qualities of these animals to the military constituting the professional association. Along with the great migration of the Indo-Europeans and the development of their civilizations, military brotherhoods became much more, they became social classes, institutions and even institutional systems which developed the war power of the served civilizations. Persia, Sparta and Rome created the most effective military institutions which deeply transformed not only the homeland, but also military art, governance and administration.

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