Hi, Mark
I think the couple Lord Moon and Lady Sun was a
North European Pattern (Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, maybe Celtic) and not an IE
heritage. However, it was ever difficult for me to define the IE Moon
gender.
Vedic myths were a good base to define PIE gods,
but in India Moon was a god, Candra. Sumerian Influence? PIE heritage? It's hard
to find out. Maybe Pre-IE Great Goddess Durga-Kali absorbed the IE Triform
Moon... Or maybe the Nornir/Moirai were the Triform Moon.
Yes, Helene was a Sun-Maiden. But I think PIE
Sun-God had a daughter - Helene, Surya:/Tapati, Leukippides, that was loved by
the Heavenly Twins.
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Dumezil, Trito
and Athena: MY IE main Gods
I don't know about Sky-Mother. In the early
days of this list, I asked what gender sun and moon were in post-Anatolic IE.
We know the sun is female and the moon male in Germanic. Lady Sun as consort
to Lord Day-Sky, with Lord Moon having Lady Night-Sky has his
consort?