Re: [tied] The Tripartitive Nature of IE Tripartition

Glen Gordon wrote:

> John of a non-Croft variety states:
> >Serious: maybe it's because I used to hang out with Wiccans and got an
> >allergy, but I am extremely reluctant to use 'ancient matriarcial
> >cultures' in *any* interpretation of prehistory. That part of your >post
> >just leaves me cold.
>
> Ah, so you're sexist.

Exsqueeze me?

If doubting makes me a sexist, what of my wife? She is a feminist and is
even more opposed to matriarcial fantasies than I am.

> Coming off the steppe, why in the hell would IE speakers have "influence" on
> an emerging agricultural people coming out of Anatolia! It would be the
> Anatolian culture that would influence the IE and indeed this is what we
> find and SHOULD find.

So you're an agricultural supremacist? Seriously, I see no reason why
influences have to go only one way.

> Please, read again. I'm not a Wiccan. Sure I've ate a few sacrificial
> victims now and then but who hasn't :)

I know people who have been persecuted for practicing Pagan religion
based on just such legends. That isn't funny.

-- John

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