Re: Backward Etruscan

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> >Here's a nice repository for *man- words:
> >
> >http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/man.html
> >
> >Feel free to use it.
>
> Hmm, a list of *man- words is nice but if they're just lumped

together

> without understanding their connections (or lack thereof), it

doesn't get us

> very far. I never heard of Manup before but there it is. Now it's

crazy to

> assume that Austronesian has any direct relevance to IndoEtruscan

studies.

> Rather, it appears to me that the legends that we like to attribute

to

> IndoEuropeans themselves (which possibly originated from the Balkan

area

> c.6000 BCE, says me) spread out very far out into Asia and beyond,

just as

> these myths spread easily into the MiddleEast and Africa. Even the

themes

> present in the Mayan myths are terribly uncanny. They too not only

have

> "Divine Twins", called Hunahpu and Xbalanque, but they are also

heroes who

> undergo tough trials, even ending up in the underworld in

Heracles-like

> manner, born to a self-impregnated goddess a la Virgin Mary,

yadayadayada.

>
>

Although it's now overdue, and now off-topic, I should mention that
Manup has as companion, Kulabop.

Torsten