Re: [tied] Re: Venus [was: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right & 10)]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:38:13 -0700 (PDT),
enlil@... wrote:

>I had arrived at a translation of "night" for /usil/ because of the
>opposition of /tHesane/ and /us(i)lane/ in the Zagreb Mummy text firstly.
>If /tHesane/ is "morning", which it appears to be upon my own review
>(in fact, *tHes- appears to mean "to rise" based on its derivatives),
>then the other word would more naturally be "in the evening" (usil,
>*usilan = "night, evening") rather than the current translation of "at
>noon" (??!).

Actually: "in the afternoon".

>Also, the text /tiur usils/ on a haruspex, at least as indicated by the
>Etruscan books at the public library immediately available to me,
>would then not be just two floating words meaning "moon" and "sun"
>respectively, but rather a phrase "moon of the night" (usil-s, with
>genitive ending).

No. The bronze liver of Piacenza is a model of a sheep's
liver, divided into 40 sections on the flat side, all
provided with an inscription (the name of a god, mostly).
The other side is divided into two parts: on the left it
says <tivs> "Of the moon", on the right it says <usils> "of
the sun".


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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