u/Cumlord-Jizzmaster

So obviously this stuff is highly contentious, and I've made several creative decisions that might rub people the wrong way, so let's not take this too seriously. I just made it as a bit of fun, and hopefully some people who're getting into speculative PIE mythology will find this interesting. I won't claim that this is accurate, or that there even is one singular, definitive "Proto-Indo-European mythology," let alone a definitive cosmos.

A few things I'm aware of:

1. The text isn't especially clear.
2. The "birds" are maybe a bit of a random choice, but they're there to symbolize the motif of birds traveling between the heavens or into the underworld via bodies of water, while also representing winged women like Valkyries and some pre-PIE bird goddess cults, like that of the Vinča.
3. The World Mother and the world probably weren't imagined as quite so physically anthropomorphic.
4. The "Wild Hunt" by name is a Germanic concept, but it does seem to have roots in PIE myth and the Kóryos.
5. I only depicted the major gods who I thought would leave a visible presence on the cosmos.
6. The hearth at the center of the world is unlabelled because I couldn't fit text there.
7. I've not depicted the "axis mundi" rivers because I really don't know how I'd do it on an anthropomorphic Earth Mother, but they could still be there, just not visible from the viewer's perspective.
8. The afterlife stuff was especially confusing. Some people say a ferry takes the dead to the underworld, others say a bridge, and many also mention crossing a "river," but with my cosmology it would make sense that that river was the ocean of chaos instead. I've left it ambiguous whether there is a system where common folk go to the underworld and warriors go to the heavens, like in Norse or Classical myth, or if they all go to the underworld.
9. I know some people debate the role of the World Tree, and others would prefer I had a rocky pillar or mountain, or that the tree were upside down.
10. The image of the "night boat" will probably confuse some people. It's meant to be the boat that the sun gets placed in before the Hero Twins carry it through the ocean and the underworld.
11. Minor thing, but the huts in the heavens probably aren't like the temporary dwellings of early PIE people.

They would've been separated by about 4000km, art by Pigeonduckthing