Res: Res: Res: [tied] Re: 'dyeus'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

>
> Aphrodite has, in fact, many
> common traits to PIE Dawn-goddess. I think there's some fading solar traits, of
> Semitic origin (cf. Ugaritic Shapash, torch-bearing messenger of gods) in
> Hekate, Iris and Hestia.
> What we know about Dione is so poor that it's hard to speculate much more...
>

Although some mixing with non-Greek goddesses is possible, it's clear that Amphitrí:te: = Aphrodí:te: (a goddess of the sea < PIE goddess of a river / fertility).

If Dió:ne: = Divona = Ju:no: / Hé:ra: (and I see no reason why not) then < PIE goddess of the moon.