Re: That old Odin scenario ...

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > GK: You could start here:
> > > >
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychrome_style
> > >
> > > I was redirected to a Wikipedia page titled
> 'Migration Period
> > > art'. Is that the one you mean?
> >
> > GK: Yes. And the subsequent one (I sent the
> > corrected URL). Polychromism was not yet known to
> the
> > Scythians. It was culturally endemic to Sarmats
> and
> > Alans. It influenced Bosporan Greek jewellery.
>
> Nice.
>
> So, what you're saying is that the burials of local
> nobility in the
> 1st century BCE would always include objects of that
> style?

****GK: Nearly always. Or other identifiable "eastern"
luxury items (if the nobility was Iranic or
Bosporan).****

>
>
> > > It seems the ring pommel started as two mirrored
> animals.
> > >
> >
> > GK: Have a look at a pre-Xiongnu Ordos warrior
> > here:
> >
> > under "Sakas and Scythians"
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_culture
> >
> >
>
> That means we can't dismiss whatever Arnaud might
> come up with of
> putative Germanic-Chinese etc cognates, although of
> course his
> scenario is wrong.

****GK: The Ordos warriors contacted with the Yuezhi
(later Kushans),who contacted with Tokharians and
Iranics. Lots of intermediaries.*****

>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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