Re: [tied] Religion; (Does anybody knows the etymology of Norse Mus

>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.

We've already been discussing the origins of this Ur myth and I personally
had suggested that IE myth is from three mythological sources that came
together in the Balkans. The Egyptian myths would have been introduced early
on from that center. Rough guess: 5000 BCE or so?

- gLeN

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