Re: Odp: Chariots of the goddesses.

From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 357
Date: 1999-11-29

��<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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>