Re: Achilles.

Glen wrote

> No, John, you're underestimating the Old European myth underlying

the Bible.

> The Tree of Good and Bad is the World Tree (Norse myth: Yggdrasil).

Cain and

> Abel is also part of the original Creation myth, the Horse Twins in

IE myth.

> The mention of the "watery deep" in the Beginning (aka Tiamat,

*Da:nu) etc.

> Even the Flood myth is simply the retelling of the Creation myth

where a

> bird is set free to fly over the waters to find land (aka Goddess

as Raven,

> Creatrix of the World-Tree and ultimately the entire cosmos), etc,

etc. The

> themes recur over and
> over in the same order in Sumerian, Akkadian and IE myth. The main

structure

> always involves a watery Underworld which I believe is part of the

Old

> European tripartition that would be adopted by the IE and Semitish

in part.

>
> Sorry, no go. The connections are sound.

Lets get dates correct here

* Ancient Sumerians 2,800 BCE to 2,200 BCE

* Bible stories Babylonian captivity in Sumerian land 586 BCE for 50
years

* Yggdrasil Tree, Norse myth written down about 1,000 AD.

Which way does time flow Glen, from the future to the past again?

The tree of life first chronologically appears in Sumerian myths,
then in Biblical stories, then in Norse mythology.

Regards

John