From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3712
Date: 2000-09-14
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From: Julianus <julianus@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Achilles.
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> Glen Gordon wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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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