Re: Tor/Tur/(e)

From: Marco Moretti
Message: 29611
Date: 2004-01-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bagoven20" <bagoven20@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
> > > Karlmarxstadt?
> >
> > I don't like Marx, marxism, Ra"terepublik or similar.
> > But this is not a political forum.
> >
> > Marco
>
> Hi, can someone give an opinion on the possibility of connecting
the
> titan Atlas with Thor.

There's no similarity at all.

> You see, the Pleiades which were seven daughters of Atlas are
> called 'Thuraya' in Arabic.

Impossible. /Thor/ < /*Thunaraz/.

> I seem to think that Tur-/Tor- roots are related to the following:
> three, thunder, mountain, teaching, star, law, point, bull and so
> many more.

It is not possible. This is not a scientific methodology but chance
resemblance.


> At-tur is mountain or specifically Mt. Sinai in Arabic. Perhaps
> related to Torah or Towraat.

In Hebrew /To:ra:(h)/ means "Law", and not "thunder". There's no
similarity at all.

> In Roman myths is Saturn the cognate of Thor (if the 'seven'
> connection is dismissed) although the equivalent of Greek Cronos?
>

Sorry, all this doesn't work.

Marco