Re: [tied] Re: Religion

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 3690
Date: 2000-09-14

John version 2.0 speaking to John version 1.0:
>The problem I have with this is that, if IE tripartition was a product
>of Sumerian contacts, should we not expect to see some explicit social
>tripartition in Sumeria as well? Is there such evidence? Also, if
>Sumeria was able to influence the PIE culture that deeply I'd expect a
>lot more linguistic and cultural signs with accompanying material
>artifacts, not the least of which would be the formation of cities. In
>the absence thereof I would be inclined to keep tripartition as an
>inherent PIE system.

Thanx, John. I agree with John and disagree, as John does, with John's
comments of a Sumerian connection :) However, I think we should keep
tripartition as an inheirent Old European system instead, later used by the
IEs.

- gLeN
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