Re: [tied] Dumezil, Trito and Athena: mystery solved the gLeN way

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From: Dennis Poulter

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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 9:07 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Dumezil, Trito and Athena: mystery solved the gLeN way

 

Let's be serious: Odin cannot be *XedHnos for the very good reason that he is the same god as Wotan and Woden: *wo:d-an-a- contains the same element that we find in archaic wood 'mad, possessed' = OHG wuot, Gothic wo:ths (cf. Modern German wütend, Wut 'wrath'), and also in Latin va:te:s, OIrish faith 'prophet, seer' < *waxt-, with further Germanic, Celtic and Indic cognates that have to do with madness, poetry and magic.

 

Piotr

 

 

Dennis writes:

Yes, Glen, I like this very much. What were you drinking?
I think though that Jasanoff and Nussbaum's criticism regarding the
juxtaposition of t-n in Ht Nt could be applied with more justification to
your proposal.
But, starting from an original Xedhnos, and adding a liberal measure of
Egyptian Neit, perhaps we can arrive at the cocktail that is the Greek
Atha:naia, phonetically and in all her many aspects.