Re: [tied] OLYMPOS, HULUPPU, LOFT, etc

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3163
Date: 2000-08-16

Maybe Olympos mean "The Mount of Huluppu trees"...
It's just an idea. I've ever been curious in deciphering the etymology of OLYMPOS. I know there was a Titan (from Stephanus of Byzantius) named OLYMBROS.
I've already tried to link OLYMPOS with IE *Leup- (cp. Germanic Luftuz "air, sky", English Lift, Loft), but I've found no other cognate.
Maybe we found any link with Caucasic (unfortunately I know nothing about South and North Caucasic etymologies). Or with Anatolic languages? (something like WULUMPASH, WALUMPASH, ULUMPASH)
Joao SL
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Athena, Tritos and the painfully obvious origins of IndoEuropean

 
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Athena, Tritos and the painfully obvious origins of IndoEuropean

Huluppa is usually identified as a linden-tree; its fruit isn't mentioned in the myth (the Sumerian 'oak' word was allaan, borrowed from Akkadian). "Huluppa > Olympus"? Not likely, nothing connects them except for vague phonetic similarity -- the most deceptive guide of all. Anyone who doesn't know what the Huluppa Tree motif is all about can check these links:
 
 
Piotr
 
 
 
Joao SL   offers:
> Olympos < Huluppu ?

In response to John Croft's:
> > apart as the Mayan Popul Vuh, on Japanese Mount Meru, the Cambodian
> > Phnon Penh (Sacred Mountain), The Sumerian "Huluppu Tree", and old
> > Yggdrasil itself.  It is even found in Maori myth.  So much for
> > Semitish influence there.

Tell me the Sumerian Huluppu was close to an oak, or that devotees ate the
fruit
(acorns or not) to share or communicate with the deity and I will get
genuinely excited.

La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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