Glen Gordon wrote:
> Yes. All correct from what I've read. I haven't seen a form like **Ymmos
> though and I'm not sure why you suggest it but *Yemos does mean "Twin". Yama
> would be the correct reflex of *Yemos, and Yima, a derivation. Since *Manus
> (Indic Manu) is the progenitor of mankind, a good name for *Yemos was
> pointless since he was too busy being slain by his brother. :)
Has anybody done any work on the parallels with the Osiris myth? Here
we have another fellow getting bumped off by his brother, a fellow
quintuplet in this case, and becoming ruler of the dead/underworld. I
have been wondering for some time if this might point to a fundamental
ur-myth from way back in the dim and misty. In fact this was one major
avenue of research I was planning for this winter. If I had to make a
guess at this point I'd suggest that the PIE version is more true to the
original because, for want of a better word, it is more 'cosmological.'
Others might see it the other way around.
Are there any other instances of this motif in non-IE mythologies?
-- John
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