Re: [tied] Re: Odin as a Trojan Prince

In my sugestion Pegasos is not a Greek word, perhaps Thracian, Albanian or
some close relative.

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Subject: [tied] Re: Odin as a Trojan Prince


> Firstly, cognates of Skt bhaga I believe are restriced to Satem
> languages in Persian and Slavic, but not Baltic or Albanian (Armenian
> I don't know). I am not aware of anything close in Greek or any other
> centum language. I remember reading where English bogey, bug, puck,
> and other words are derived from a root word related to the satem
> words for 'god', but as I recall the source was not very
> authoritative.
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> I believe the same is true of horse: Lith asva, Skt asva/ azva,
> Avestan aspa. Perhaps centum cognates are ON hestr, Swe hast, and
> Gaelic osan? There is also Hittite Asuwa/ aswu. Perhaps Pegasos was
> derived from there? Nothing close in Greek, however.
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> Pegasus was the offspring of the Medusa and Poseidon. This hardly
> seems the lineage of the 'horse of god'. Poseidon had a chariot
> pulled by horses. So did the Welsh sea-god Manannan and the Norse sea-
> god Aegir. They rode across the tops of waves. Perhaps this was
> associated with sea breezes or clouds and mists at sea. I believe
> that these three IE sea-gods were all related to the same PIE belief.
>
> As for the apocalyptic destruction, I think that is pretty well
> restricted to the World Serpent in about every IE mythology.
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> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > Well, I was not saying that in IE mythology the horse is allways
> associated to apocalyptical destruction, but that there's some traits
> of an older myth involving a horse (or a mare) in a kind of proto-
> Ragnarok. There was also traits of supernatural horses helping
> heroes, like Pegasus or Areion. Speaking of Pegasos... could be
> ending -asos akin to Indo-Iranian ashva?
> > So, Pe:gasos < * Bhaga-asva "Godly Horse"? Perhaps originally
> *Bagasos, later due folk-etymological association with pe:ge: "well,
> fountain" turned into Pa:gasos?
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