Re: [tied] Athene

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3286
Date: 2000-08-19

I agree with your point of view about ATLAS. The Mountains Atlas and the Titan Atlas had the same name?
Atarantes and adrar seems a logical link.
Atlas was like Hittite giant UPELLURISH.
Try this: ATLAS < ASTLAS, cp. Armenian astl <*Haster-/Hastel- "star". Atlas was the father of Hyades and Pleiades.
 
(And about ATLANTIS and Nahuatl AZTLAN ( mythical island)? Coincidence?)
 
Joao SL
Rio 
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From: Dennis Poulter
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Athene

Is it so very far Piotr? Final t's were dropped both in Greek and in Late (New Kingdom) Egyptian. A prothetic vowel or contamination from the obviously related Semitic Anat could provide an explanation of the initial a. So we have a possible ath-a-nei-.
It's not as if we're discussing two entirely unrelated words. Notwithstanding John's claim of 6c political machinations, there is a consensus in classical literature identifying Athena with Neit.
 
I have heard of the Berber adrar as a possible source of Atlas. The question is though, was Atlas originally the mountain or the ocean? He seems to have many similarities with Okeanos. So maybe what we have is two different names, from different sources, for the same thing - the ocean that encircles the world.
 
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