Re: [tied] Religion

>The 'child of the water' myth is obscure. The Greek reflex is Theseus
>plunging into the sea to recover a ring, then being escorted to the court
>of Amphitrite. Vergil, in one of his Georgics, the one about Aristeus,
>also preserves elements of this. There are reflexes in Avestan and
>Sankrit. It also seems to come part-and-parcel with a 'fire in water'
>myth. Whatever it means, it would seem to be of PIE status.

This is interesting to me, for Theseus also has a myth where he recovers his
father's sword from underneath a stone. This is a rare motif which seems
close to King Arthur's removal of the sword in the stone. Arthur shares
certain other characteristics which link him to some Celtic Apollonic gods
(Irish Fraoch, for instance) that were closely associated with the waters.
It would be very interesting if we could add Arthur to the list of PIE
"child of the waters" types.

-C Gwinn