Re: [cybalist] Re: Easter

John wrote:

>
> Sergei, if the

waters took their name from an IE goddess of the

> waters, we have a

complete hydronymy going back to PIE based on Danu.

> The explanation then

does not have to be Scythian, although the

> Scythians, as Indo-Iranians

probably worshipped the same goddess as

> the Hindu Danu (goddess of the

Asuras) too.

>
> Thus we don't have to try to connect Iranians to

Latin Diana,

> Greek Dione, Welsh Don and Irish Dana.  Rather the

connection could

> be
> Indo European generally.
>

If I got you right, you mean that tradition of naming rivers after (reconstructed? it would be interesting to take a look at the * form) PIE goddess is a common PIE legacy of different yet IE ethnolinguistic groups.

That tradition should be proven if not by direct examples (i.e. putative cases of naming river after THIS goddess) then at least typologically. For instance, the Lithuanian and Slavic hydronymy, the first containing rather archaic naming patterns, doesn't contain god's or goddesses names, or at least such examples are unknown to me.

Sergei