Joao:
>For example, you proposes the pair *Nepot/Pexwrgnnos. OK, Fire and >Water.
>A good opposition, but this equivalence is present in IE >mythologies?
>Parjanya and Fjorgunn, good link, but Parjanya was a god >of Rain, not Fire
>or Lightning.
Well, I'll think some more there.
>Other example: *Xedhnos/Xereghnis. [...]
I'm starting to question this myself. It is partially under the assumption
that the three realm-function deity pairs should have been married off. I
now see that only half of these pairs are married off, the others may simply
be realm deities who sit there and look pretty, representing formless
concepts afterall (sky, earth, waters). Thus, Fire-Born and Venus, Sky and
Cow Mother, Man and whatever his wife may have been (Logically, he _must_
have been connected with a female if he were to be the originator of
mankind!). Affirmation of this half-married view would be that Venus and
Aphrodite seem like mirror images of a single goddess.
Who could Neptune be married to? Suggestions? Recap: My theory so far is
that Grandson only represents an inanimate and formless realm (waters) and
therefore is unattached.
Please, continue to be my devil's advocate. :)
- gLeN
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