Re: [cybalist] Eridanos

From: Dennis Poulter
Message: 2398
Date: 2000-05-09

 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Sunday, 07 May, 2000 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [cybalist] Eridanos

 
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Subject: Re: [cybalist] Eridanos

 
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Subject: [cybalist] Eridanos

The name Eridanos is most likely a Greek invention, as Herodotus soberly suggests. I just mean that the reference to a half-legendary amber-giving river flowing into a half-legendary sea beyond Europe suggests the Vistula and its estuary, whence amber was brought to the delta of the Po, the southern end of the Amber Road. The association of either river with the mythical Eridanus is of course arbitrary; both "Padus" and "Vistula" are old names, and the vocalism of "Eridanos" makes any connection with *da:nu very unlikely.

Piotr

Yes Piotr, I'm agreeing with you. I don't think there is any connection between Eridanos and da:nu or the Iranian and Celtic don/dan river names, other than a possible remote common ancestry in Semitic.

Cheers

Dennis