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Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 6:16
AM
Subject: [cybalist] What did
Zarathrustra say.
Zaraθuštra-, "zara-thoosh-tra",
with the "th" of "thick". It probably comest from *zarant- 'old' plus uštra-
'camel',i.e. "(having) old camels". Your second "r" shouldn't be
there.
Piotr
I wonder what we are supposed to do with the 'th' in
Zarathrustra.
Richard Strauss and Stanley Kubrick
made us all do it as in
German.
EIEC does it with a theta. Now, from Homer down
into early
post-archaic times, Greek theta is really
t+h (t plus an aspirated aitch)
and not what we
English-speakers and the Icelanders do with our
thorns
and edhs.
So. What is it. Zara true struh or Zara through
struh.
Mark.
