Re: Etruscans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
wrote:

>
> The Vedas have the most complete collection of Gods not the

Lithuanians.

>
> http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/DIET.pdf

"The most complete collection of Gods" is in Funk & Wagnall's
Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology & Legend
[http://www.amazon.com/Wagnalls-Standard-Dictionary-Folklore-
Mythology/dp/0308400909]. I was not arguing "completeness". I said
that IN SEVERAL RESPECTS Lithuanian (language and mythology) is more
archaic and closer to PIE than Indic
[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51358%5d. You can
easily find references to that in literature.

> As far as "Indo-Europeans" they are good to "think with", these

were

> not a real people.

Really? Who were they, then? But that's irrelevant. I was telling
about PIE language and mythology as these are reconstructed by
comparativists.

> The idea of PIE is not necessary (Trubetskoy).

:-) Trubetzkoy's ideas are not necessary (Indo-Europeans).

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...>

wrote:

> >
> > The parallels between Lithuanian and India's languages and

mythologies

> > are exclusively due to their common IE provenance. And, in

several

> > respects, Lithuanian is certainly closer to the proto-form than

Hindu.