From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 12424
Date: 2002-02-21
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From: tycho137 <petrich@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:52 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Non-Indo-European Vocabulary in Greek?
> --- In cybalist@..., "mrcaws" <MrCaws@...> wrote:
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> > Do you happen to know where I could find info on the Talos/
> Sun god
> > connection? By the way, I posted something on connections
> between
> > Orion, Achilles, and Talos in #12328
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> About O, A, and T being attacked in the heel, I note that in India,
> Krishna is described as being attacked there also. So this might
> be a result of perceiving one's heel as especially vulnerable; I
> can't think of any special reason for that, however.
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> As to the Talos/Sun connection, I've been unable to track down
> anything like a primary source for that on the Internet. However,
> checking at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu and at http://
> www.greekmythology.com Talos is described:
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> A brazen man, the work of Hephaestus, and given by Zeus to
> Minos, king of Crete, to watch that island, which he did by
> walking about it three times every day. When strangers
> approached he heated himself red hot and then embraced
> them, or, according to another version, threw showers of stones
> upon them. He had one vein in his body through which his blood
> ran and was stopped by a nail or plug in his foot. This plug
> Medea drew out by magic, and he bled to death ( Apollod.i.9.26;
> Ap. Rh. iv. 1638; Schol. ad Plato Rep.425).
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> Being shiny and bronze and fiercely hot does suggest the Sun,
> though throwing stones is less Sunlike :-)
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