Re: [tied] Re: Athenaia & Trita

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From: John Croft

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 6:42 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Athenaia & Trita

 

Please, John,

 

Don't cut Greek letters in the middle! "Th" is just our transliteration of "theta", which stands for an indivisible phoneme (like the English digraph "sh", which is not etymologically equivalent to "s" + "h"). One could dissect Atha:na: morphologically into *Ath-a:n-a:, but certainly not the way you do. The medial vowel is long, which is a serious obstacle if you want to equate *-a:na: with Hittite hannas etc.

 

Piotr

 

 

 

John wrote:

 

If one is forced to look for origins of Athana I would suggest *At-hana.  *At- is found in a large number of Greek divine and semi-divine names, Atlas, Atlantides, Atalanta, Atlantis etc, which seem pre-Greek.  Hanahana was a major Anatolian Khattic goddess - whose name appears in Ana-t (Syria), In-anna (Sumeria) and Ana-hita (Iran).  With such a spread across such linguistic divides she is quite possibly the neolithic divinity that came out of Anatolia with the first farmers.