Re: 'dyeus' chronology

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

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> I have a simple question for the list.
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> Earliest reference to dyauspitra is in rg ved.
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> Earliest reference to zeus is in Linear B tablets.
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> Why would an etymology of dyaus be looked for outside of rg vedic corpus?
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> Shivraj
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****** Because corpora are not the places where etymologies are looked for. The presence of very similar phrases are found in Greek and Latin is usually taken to mean that a people ("Proto-IndoEuropeans") speaking a language ancestral to Sanskrit, Greek and Latin had a Father Sky God.
If you want to argue that the Greeks and Romans learned about Him from the Rgved, go right ahead.

Dan Milton