Athena, Neit & *Xedhnos

Dennis P:

>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.

I have trouble seeing a phonetic connection here without "liberally"
employing metathesis. If there is truely a later association being made by
ancients between the two gods, Neit and Athena, I don't think it was based
on any similarity (or lack thereof) of the pronunciation of their names so
much as their function and associated symbolisms.

- gLeN
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