I'm writing an academic book for my postgraduate course on the history of millenarianism and Christian messianism.



Last year I learned at university about George Dumezil's "Trifunctional Hypothesis," according to which the figure of the Monarch in archaic Indo-European societies united three idealized archetypal figures: the Ideal Warrior, the ideal legal and/or priestly figure, and the ideal farmer, corresponding respectively to the martial, sacred, and economic spheres—the three most valued occupations.



I have nicknamed this triple archetype the "Indo-European Warrior-King."



Dumezil uses several examples to prove his perspective. We can cite Early Germanic society, where Dumezil perceived the manifestation of his "Trifunctional Hypothesis" in the division between the king, warrior aristocracy, and regular freemen. In Norse mythology, we would see this in the gods Odin (sovereignty), Týr (law and justice), and the Vanir (fertility). And in India, through the Hindu castes: the Brahmins or priests; the Kshatriya, the warriors and military; and the Vaishya, the agriculturalists, cattle herders, and traders.



That said, some years ago, during my studies on the phenomenology of religion, a friend told me about a similar theory concerning the Semitic peoples of the Near East, which I nicknamed the "Semitic King-Prophet" and the "Semitic King-Priest."



I don't remember the name of the theory or the books he mentioned, but according to this other theory, the Semitic kings would be the embodiment of the ideal warrior, the ideal shepherd, and the ideal religious priest/prophet. From what I recall, the figure of Adam in the Book of Genesis would be the archetypal representation of this supreme King-priest, with the Garden of Eden being a representation of a Temple, as a hermetic analogy/prophecy to the Sacred Temple that would later be built, analogous to the one later built in biblical history by King Solomon.



Based on all this, I began to notice that Christ in the Apocalypse of John assumes characteristics of both the archetype of the Proto-Indo-European Monarchs of Dumezil's theory, and the archetype of the Semitic Monarchs described by my friend. The Apostle John was embedded in both Jewish and Hellenic culture of the first centuries, so it would not be unusual for him to use (consciously or unconsciously) these symbols to transmit the hermetic revelations he had during his divine epiphany on Patmos, thus creating a new monarchical archetype to describe Christ's supremacy in the cosmos at the end of time as Universal Emperor of all humanity.



Does anyone know of authors and theories that fit the description I'm looking for?



If anyone knows, please comment. This will greatly help in writing my postgraduate's thesis. 😄

Christ of Revelation 19 as the cosmic imperial personification of the Indo-European and Semitic monarchs.