C. Gwinn contributes:
>I still don't get this Pexwr-Genos bit.
>
>If Parjanya came from Pexw(o)r - gen(y)-os, his name would be Indic
>*Purjanya or *Pavarjanya.
Don't you remember Parvati? What is her name all about then? She is the
consort of Shiva. Shiva has aspects of an underlying IE fire-related god as
Joao also mentions. In my view, Shiva is the Hindu version of *PexwrGnnos
"Fire-Born". Parvati therefore can be interpreted as something like "Fire
Bride" where, again, the *Par- prefix seems to have originally refered to
"fire". She certainly didn't strike anything although it can be a real pain
in the ass to be a consort of the desireless Shiva :)
- gLeN
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