Indo-European Death and the Goddess of the Grave

How did our Indo-European ancestors think of death? Where did they go? How did they get there? Who ruled this world? But most importantly who decided when they would die? Here I present the mythology around death and the Indo-European Goddess that was a representation of it, Kolyo the Coverer.

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► References
Güntert, H. Kalypso - Studies of the history of meaning in the field of Indo-European languages. 1919
Lincoln, B. Death, War, and Sacrifice. The University of Chicago Press. 1991

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Who were the Indo-Europeans?
2:54 Indo-European Cosmology
8:31 How the Indo-Europeans viewed Death
11:27 The King of the Otherworld
15:17 What was the Otherworld?
21:57 The Goddess of Death
25:25 The Bonds of Death
33:33 The Journey to Death