Re: [tied] Re: Religion

Well Lugh was not a Thunder God, but his function as a Warrior Leader has
some similarities with the function of gods like Indra or Thorr. Or maybe
the Thunder God in Irish would be Dagda? Celtic myths is so confused,
because there was many substractum themes.

Joao SL
Rio

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Subject: [tied] Re: Religion


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> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
> <jodan99@...>
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> > Surely it has IE elements, although very complex ones. But maybe
> some of the similarities between Lugh and Wodan can be non-IE.
> > I think the original Mithra didn't have solar aspect. This happened
> through Babylonian influence of Sun-God Shamash.
> > I think Lugh have IE elements of Sun-God, Fire-God, Thunder-God,
> and Preserver (like Vishnu-Vidar), at least.
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> Where is it stated that LUG is a Thunder-God?
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