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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> secondly, Zamolxis was not one and the same with Gebleizis, even
> in wiki you can find some kind of informations. I see also that the
> paralelism zemele/gebele has been already mentioned by Kretschmer
> too.(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebeleizis)
> Unfortunately the english version of wiki here is too short and does not
> mention this aspect.
> Alex
I don't have any proud to be right or wrong here...
All I did is that I took the original quotation and only next the interpreters:
The SINGLE SOURCE here is Herodotus:
"But before he came to the Ister, he first subdued the Getae, who
pretend to be immortal. The Thracians of Salmydessus and of the
country above the towns of Appolonia and Mesambria, who are called
Cyrmaianae and Nipsaei, surrendered themselves unresisting to
Darius;
but the Getae, who are the bravest and most law-abiding of all
Thracians, resisted with obstinacy, and were enslaved forthwith.
94. As to their claim to be immortal, this is how they show it:
they
believe that they do not die, but that he who perishes goes
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TO THE GOD SALMOXIS OR GEBELEXIS, AS SOME OF THEM CALL HIM.
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Once in every five years they choose by lot one of their people and send him as a messenger to Salmoxis, charged to tell of their needs; and this is their manner of sending: Three lances are held by men thereto appointed; others seize the messenger to Salmoxis by his hands and feet, and swing and hurl him aloft on to the spear-point. If he be killed by the cast, they believe that the gods regard them with favour; but if he be not killed, they blame the messenger himself, deeming him a bad man, and send another messenger in place of him whom they blame. It is while the man yet lives that they charge him with the message.
"
S Herodotus clearly tell us abut one and the same GOD having 2 different names
(in my opinion is also the same name with only dialectic differences)
Marius