Alby Stone
In the different branches of Indo-European tradition, social structure is ritually legitimized in myth and religious observance, which reflect the Proto-Indo-European social organisation into three distinct strata, or as Georges Dumézil terms them, functions. The first function is usually termed ‘sovereignty’; it relates to rule and the ritual maintenance of order. It can be sub-divided into the magico-religious and the temporal-juridical, represented socially by priests and kings respectively.
Witch's Well 