Re: re [tied] Greek mithology

From: bromiosking
Message: 34024
Date: 2004-09-06

> As well as 'Nix' instead of 'Nyx' there is another (maybe not
> significant) slip in relation to the name of a divinity - Ouranos'
> son is Kronos, not 'Chronos'

There is nothing more to be said at this time of night

(...sending apologies to all)

John






--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Selway <gordonselway@...>
wrote:
> As well as 'Nix' instead of 'Nyx' there is another (maybe not
> significant) slip in relation to the name of a divinity - Ouranos'
> son is Kronos, not 'Chronos'.
>
> At 15:11 UT today Brian M. Scott wrote:
> >At 6:53:32 AM on Sunday, September 5, 2004, alex wrote:
> >> Now some questions. I will take first the godes Nix which
> >> seems to fit with her name that what she was. The godess
> >> of the night. (Latin "nox"/noctis, Greek "nux", "nuktis"
> >> etc). -the "i" there in Nix should be from what Greek
> >> dialect?
> >
> >What <i>? Her name is generally given as <Nux>, with
> >upsilon, identical to the word for 'night' (<nux>, <nukt->).
> >
> >> Dorian, Ionian? The husband of Nix. That is the good
> >> Erebus. Here I have no idea about its etimology.
> >
> >Greek <?ebos>. Watkins derives it from a PIE *h1regW-
> >'darkness', Pokorny's *regWos-. Leiden's down, as usual, so
> >I can't tell you what Pokorny says.
> >
> >Brian