Piotr
>Don't look at that page too long, or you'll absorb too much >misinformation
>(starting with the misspelling of *daiva-). What it
>has to say about the history and taxonomy of the Slavic languages,
>the Slavic homeland and NE Iranian beliefs ranges from confused to >plainly
>wrong.
Right, gotcha, I didn't examine long enough... whoops. But all I
know is that the *bhag^os word is common in Balto-Slavic languages
as the word for "god" and *deiwos seems to have taken a back-seat.
Why did it develop this way? As I say, Mallory mentions *Bhag^os
as though it were some sort of specific deity so why would this
root, already used for a specific deity, be used to designate _all_
gods? If there was no such *Bhag^os deity, then again, why is
this "gift" root used to describe all gods if special gift-making
elves already existed in the IE mythos... Something's not making
sense here.
- love gLeN
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