Re: Odp: Chariots of the goddesses.
From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 357
Date: 1999-11-29
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Mark Odegard wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">She's supposed to be the barefoot and
pregnant conquest of Patriarchal, keep-them-three-steps-behind-you Sky-Father
Zeus; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">That's about the shortest, toughest
description of Patriarchy I've ever read. Congratulations, Mark, I really liked
that one!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Cognates of your 'new words' in German
are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">felloe: Felge</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">nave : Nabe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">And right, they are charming, Pjotr,
although connected to me quite down to earthly with fixing a puncture in a bike
(naturally connected with other such words, like 'Speiche' for spoke, probably
just as old, a fact I had never thought about ...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">The peacock, Pjotr, is a later addition to
Hera, and somehow reminding me again of Queen Victoria ;-). It had been
brought to Hellas from India, telling people it had sprung from the blood of
Argos (the one with the hundred eyes watching cow-goddess Io, cf. Roscher I,2,
2106)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Best wishes from Crete</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Sabine</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>