Re: Semitic influences in Greek Mythology

Perhaps Poseidon was originally an epithet, rather
than a name e.g. Christ for Jesus


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:59 AM
> Subject: Res: [tied] Semitic influences in Greek
> Mythology
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> Linking Nahar to Ne:reus allows an assumption that
> perhaps the original
> aquatic brother of Zeus was him instead of Poseidon.
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> I think that may be an unwarranted assumption.
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> Why should the PIE's not have had a 'river god'
> named Poseidon _while_ the
> Semites had a 'river-god' named Nahar?
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> Nahar will have been originally the brother of
> Ba'al.
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> As Nereus, he is an addition to not a replacement
> for Poseidon.
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> Patrick
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