Re: [tied] Achilles.

Glen Gordon wrote:

> The Sun Maiden gives birth to Man and Twin. Man is a hunter and Twin is a
> gatherer (cf. Cain/Abel). After their birth, the Sun Maiden being a
> protective mother implores all living creatures not to harm them. What she
> doesn't take into account however is Man's own jealousy of Twin. Although
> the two were protected from everything else, they weren't protected from
> each other. Thus Twin (cf. Achilles) gets killed off by something ironic and
> unconsiderable - in this case, his own twin brother. So Man kills Twin with
> an arrow and Twin lies dead, becoming the earth and god of the dead. Because
> of Man's devilish act, Man and his offspring are sentenced by the gods to
> live limited mortal lives on earth telling silly little stories about gods
> that never existed. The End.

I considered the Yama & Manu = Abel & Cain idea myself a while ago, but
I think you relying way too much on it here. If I had to draw a
connection, I would say the Cain & Abel story was a late folkloric
addition to Semitic myth, an addition modeled perhaps on contacts with
IE peoples or maybe the ur-myth I posited in my last post. In other
words I don't see Cain and Abel as being very relevant to reconstruction.

-- John

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