Re: [tied] Atlas

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3322
Date: 2000-08-20

Atlas can't fit a- + telos because telos < *kwelos "distant", cf. palaios
"old"
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 3:59 AM
Subject: [tied] Atlas


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> Joao:
> >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.
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> Wouldn't Atlas mean something like "without measurement"?
> cf. Gr a- "not, without" & telos "far (?)" <- my Greek is rusty
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> >(And about ATLANTIS and Nahuatl AZTLAN ( mythical island)? >Coincidence?)
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> Definitely coincidence since there is absolutely no convincing additional
> evidence aside from this to prove such an outlandish conclusion. As well
as
> the connection with Nahuatl /atl/ "water".
>
> - gLeN
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