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As an internationally renowned classic book, the author uses etymology, semantics and other disciplines as tools to examine the literary and historical texts, vocabulary, myths, rituals, social organizational structures, legal procedures and material remains of ancient India, Iran, Greece, Rome, Celtic, Germanic and other peoples. At the same time, it elucidates the Indo-European people's behavior on war and sacrifice and the view of life and death it implies; discusses the layout of death and funerals in Indo-European mythology, and debates conflicting views; it points out that it is not a common language or a common ancestry, but a common social structure and a common historical situation that produce the Indo-European people's common mythology and religious beliefs, and determine the way they live and the way they die.