The siege of Rome by Etruscan king Porsenna and the Battle of Lake Regillus, exhibits elements that may point to another epicization of Indro-European eschatological battle myth like Kurushetra and Ragnarök. The personalities of the war, Horatius Cocles ('Cyclops', one-eyed) with his paralyzing gaze, and Mucius Scaevola 'Lefty', who burns up his right hand to back up a heroic trickery, are epic exemplars of Jupiter and Dius Fidius, with bodily mutilations matching their Scandinavian counterparts, the one-eyed host paralyzer Odin and the legal guardian Tyr who lost his right hand as a pledge in the maw of cosmic wolf Fenrir. Significantly the priests of Fides, installed by Numa, symbolically bandaged their right hands.
In this way it is conceivable that, as in the Mahabharata, the passing of old order and establishment of the Republic were cast in the epicized mold of the old eschatological myth of destruction and regeneration of the world order, with Pandavas versus Kauravas and Patriots versus Tarquins playing the roles still reserved for gods in Iran and Scandinavia.
