Re: [tied] Re: Neptune, Poseidon, Danu, etc.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 7907
Date: 2001-07-16

Well, there were lynx all over the place; they are pretty large, though not fearsome enough to be in the Lions Club. As for lions, their range dramatically _shrank_ rather than _expanded_ in post-Pleistocene times, but by the time PIE was spoken there were indeed no surviving lions north of the Balkans or west of Italy. I am not sure about the Holocene fossil record of lions in Ukraine.
 
Piotr
 
 
 
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Subject: [tied] Re: Neptune, Poseidon, Danu, etc.

 
Big cats were not known in Northern Europe or the Western Steppe. The
lion got as far as the south Balkans (to Thrace), and other big cats
were probably in the Caucusus. The wildcat (F sylvestris) does not
have the mythic oomph of the lion.