Re: PIE fire god

--- In cybalist@..., CeiSerith@... wrote:

> In a message dated 12/2/02 6:13:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> jodan99@... writes:
>
> << All of them were tricksters,
>
> Perhaps I am simply not informed sufficiently regarding Agni.

In what

> sense is he a trickster?
>
> messengers,
> and related to fire, helpers of mankind,
>
> Most gods are helpers of mankind. How is Loki one?
>
> rivals of Storm Gods; Agni and Loki were shape-shifting gods. I

think the

> role of Prometheus was superseeded by Hermes. >>
>
> Loki and Prometheus were both unworshipped, and both outsiders

to the

> great gods. Agni, on the other hand, was of course worshipped

intensely as

> one of the highest of the gods. I am willing to admit the

possibility of a

> connection between the first two, but Agni does not seem to me to

fit into

> this pattern. At the very least, I find it hard to understand how

a god of

> fire could, in the IE world, be so "demoted" that he would become
> unworshipped, be an outsider, and be so difficult to identify.
>
> David Fickett-Wilbar

One possible connection-
Both Prometheus and Agni were instrumental in the institution of
sacrifice(Prometheus' role in the sacrifice at Mecone)

Cort Williams