Re: [tied] Re: Ianus - PIE Origin?

Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> "Inakhos, a king of Argos, founded a city which he
> named for the moon, Io, for that is what Argives call
> the moon. He also had a daughter Io; Pekos who is also
> Zeus abducted her and fathered a daughter, Libya, by
> her. And Io, lamenting her ruin, fled to the Silpion
> Mountain and there died. Her father and her brothers,
> when they learned this, built a shrine to her and
> called the place Iopolis and remained there until the
> end. And they performed a ritual in her memory,
> banging on each other's doors every year and saying
> 'io, io!" - Suidas (Byzantine Lexicographer) "Io"

Yes! Byzantine! It seems to me than the identification Io = Luna is very
late, even later than Io = Isis. The same opinion:
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=IO

If it is true, the Io/Iana/Diana link may be based on just a coincidence.

Grzegorz J.





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