Re: [tied] Re: Athenaia & Trita

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 3143
Date: 2000-08-15

 
----- Original Message -----
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.