Re: [tied] Re: IAPETOS x JAFETH

Maybe related to -YAPA in Indian father-god Kashyapa ?
Robert Graves stated that Iapetos was a god in Cilicia, maybe linked to the
People of the Sea.
Is it well understood the Biblical criteria in divinding people into three
sons of Noah? For example, I think Kham was ancestor of African, Arabian and
Canaanite people, including Cretan and Babylonian (Nimrod). Yaphet was
ancestor of Mediterranean people. Shem was ancestor of Oriental or Northern
people, Persians (or Elamites?), Assyrian and Lydians.
Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 10:38 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: IAPETOS x JAFETH


> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
> <jodan99@...>
> wrote:
> > Is ther any Semitic etymology for Yepheth ? Is it the same as Greek
> Titan Iapetos? Or perhaps the two people borrowed him from a third
> mythology?
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> I have been interested in this for some time and have proposed that
> it was Asianic. I have never found a cognate that works though.
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> Regards
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> John
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