Re: [tied] Re: The indo european "race"

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 25983
Date: 2003-09-24

>But also notice that the medo-persians mentioned in the Avesta a
>mythological first king called Yima or Jima who expanded the IE
>speaking tribes (Iranians) into Asia, describing him as blond.

I'm not sure of this legend or what you're trying to put forth, however
it must be understood as well that there is a colour-symbolism that
might affect the shape of these myths. So does reference to
someone "blond" truely refer to an actual person who was "blond"
or is blondness a symbolism for something else, like the sun or
for a priest-chief caste a la Dumezil. This kind of imparting of
special qualities to mythological people is often more symbolic
than based on reality.

Personally, I would imagine IE peoples to be largely of a
Mediterranean type in appearance with some variation of course
but unlikely that there were many blond-hair, blue-eyed people
in the Balkans and surrounding areas at that time.


= gLeN

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