Re: [tied] Primordial Man, Ymir, *Yemos, PIE cosmogony

From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 17946
Date: 2003-01-22

In a message dated 1/22/2003 3:02:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, glengordon01@... writes:


>3. The Earth Mother *DHeg^Hom

Are you sure the earth is female in Indo-European mythology? Granted we
do find Gea but the Greek mythologies were affected by native preIE
Balkan beliefs as well as beliefs imported from across the Mediterranean.


   As much as I hate to buy into any sort of "Goddess" mentality, I would think that the earth was indeed female among IEs.  It isn't just in Greece and the Balkans, but among the Slavs (Moist Mother Earth) and the Vedics.

David Fickett-Wilbar