In his work Mitra Varuna, Dum zil points out that in India as in Rome, virile power asserts itself in two ways: in Varuna and Romulus, and in the Gan dharvas and the Luperci, it is aggression, abduction, disorder, and hubris; thus, woman is the being to be ravished and violated; if the ravished Sabine women are sterile, they are whipped with goatskin straps, compensating for violence with more violence.