Re: RELIGION: - Red /// - Indo-Europeans and Semitoids

Thanks Arkugal for pointing to all the difficulties contained in
Glen's schema. If it had been me he would have dismissed them out of
hand.

Regards

John

> Yes, but the thunder is not necessarly connected with the

Underworld,

> neither is the Warrior God. That's the main subject here.

Thunder is usually associated with weather gods.

> Couldn't these influences flow in the opposite way, from IE to
> Semitic?

Yes especially via the Philistine connection in the late Bronze Age
and the Iranic connection at the time of the Persian Empire. All
Middle Eastern elements (with the exception of the Sumerian
derivations) are post Persian, or Greco-Roman classical in origin.

> Isn't ANU Sumerian? And which is the connection between *Dyeus and
> *Ana?

Exactly

> The pair SUN-MOON is too obvious, it does not need any cultural

inter-

> influence to be justified;
> The pair MARS-VENUS belongs to the Greek Mythology - ARES-

APHRODITE,

> while in archaic Roman Tradition there is not such pair.
> The «pair» JUPITER-SATURN belongs as well to the Greek
> Mythology
> ZEUS-KRONOS
> not to the Archaic Roman one.

There is such a mixmash in this construction. Classicists like
Thompason who have studied the work for years would throw up their
hands in horror. Mars and Venus were not originally associated with
Ares or Aphrodite, until after the Helenising phase of Roman
mythology.

Regards

John