Re: [tied] Re: Etruscan and Anatolian

I was going to ask about this cattle-stealing business too -- sounds
like a neopagan figment. Slavic deities are in general very poorly
documented, and made-up latterday myths circulating in the
WWW surely don't count as evidence.

Piotr



To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
Date sent: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:37:19 -0000
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Subject: [tied] Re: Etruscan and Anatolian

--- In cybalist@..., MrCaws@... wrote:
> Slavic Veles stole Perun's cattle, Baltic Vels stole 
> Percunas' cattle

Could you specify the authority for the first statement 
(ethnographical sources, for instance; wishful thinking
won't do)?

Baltic Vels is a non-existent form. *vel-(n)- is all
one can afford 
to reconstruct.

Sergei



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