Re: Pelasgian-Cretan-Philistines

Poitr wrote

>You surely know that the Lycians are probably mentioned (as Luka or
>however the hieroglyphic name should be vocalised) in the Egyptian
>inventories of the Sea Peoples (I find this name rather clumsy,
>especially if I need to use it adjectivally; shouldn't we call them
>'Seafolk' or 'Thalassans' instead?). Like the Carians and Cilicians
>(presumably also Anatolian-speaking ethnoi) they were good sailors and
>notorious pirates. Perhaps the fellow in the feather-crowned hedgear on
>the Phaistos Disk represents the syllable LU ;-).

The idea of calling them Thalassoi, or even Athalassantoi makes me
remember the stories of Plato in the Timaeus and Critias when the talks
about the people of the Ocean (to the Egyptians the "Great Green Ocean"
was the Mediterranean, and Greece was just an island). There is
etymologically not much distance between Atlantoi and Athalantoi.
Could this also be a memory of "The Peoples of the Sea"?

Regards

John