From: Dennis Poulter
Message: 2374
Date: 2000-05-07
----- Original Message -----From: Piotr GasiorowskiSent: Friday, 05 May, 2000 5:00 AMSubject: [cybalist] Eridanos
Is the river Herodotus doesn't believe in the Vistula?
Piotr
Isn't the reference to amber, the reason why the Po was considered to be Eridanus? The amber of course was produced from the tears of the Heliadai mourning the demise of their brother Phaeton.
I tend to go with Herodotos, and see the Eridanus as a purely mythical river, and a Greek name, derived from Semitic,with the myth ultimately derived from Egyptian sources.
Regards
Dennis