ABSTRACT
In this esaay, I shall endeavour to bring together discussions of Georges Dumézil’s thesis concerning the tripartite structure of Indo-European mythology, with discussions of trinitarian theology. My claim will be, first of all, that the mythology led to an intrinsically aporetic characterisation of the soul as a sphere of ‘self-government in space’. Second, that Plato, initially, and then much more emphatically Augustine, dissolved this construction and resolved its aporias by substituting an alternative construction in terms of ‘government by the other through time’.
