Re: [tied] Re: Athena, Tritos and the painfully obvious origins of

Joao SL offers:

> Olympos < Huluppu ?

In response to John Croft's:

> > apart as the Mayan Popul Vuh, on Japanese Mount Meru, the Cambodian
> > Phnon Penh (Sacred Mountain), The Sumerian "Huluppu Tree", and old
> > Yggdrasil itself. It is even found in Maori myth. So much for
> > Semitish influence there.

Tell me the Sumerian Huluppu was close to an oak, or that devotees ate the
fruit
(acorns or not) to share or communicate with the deity and I will get
genuinely excited.

La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
<rexbo@...>