Re: [tied] Re: Religion

1) Sanskrit shakti- means "power" <* k'nkti-; OIrl cecht may be < *cancto- <*k'nkto-. So, Diancecht < *D(w)eino-canctos

2) I believe Apollo had traits of Indian Mitra and ON Tyr, as a god of justice.

3) Apulunas can explain the name, but Hittite Jarrish "god of pestilence" has also some traits of Apollon.

4) It's not impossible that Apollon have some traits of Egyptian Horus.

5) I think the main IE traits of Apollon were the same as Rudra (pestilence, medicine, bow, vengeance). Homerus' Trojan Apollon are so similar to Rudra, but I think that in post-Homeric evolution the more "bloody" and violent traits of Apollon were transferred to Ares-Enyalios.

Joao SL

Rio

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From: Christopher Gwinn

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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:19 PM

>Maybe Irish Diancecht fitted this role too (Does anyone >knows the etymology of Diancecht? Cecht = Shakti?).

I have Dian Cecht as "Swift Plow" (dian "swift" cecht "plow") but Pokorny lists cecht as meaning "powerful" (I don't know where he gets this definition) and relates it to Indic sakti. Dian Cecht certainly shares some traits with the Celtic Apollo - but that's not to say t hat the Celtic Apollo is an exact fit for the Greek Apollo (I think Lug is closer).

Isn't Apollo generally thought to have originated from an Anatolian (Lycian?)guardian god (Apulunas is a "god of gates" known from an Hittite inscription). Olmsted believes that when Apollo was introduced into Greece he absorbed some traits from Hermes as well as a hypothetical Greek correlate of Mitra/Mithra (a similar mix of Mercurial/Hermetic and Mithraic traits can be applied to Lug).

-C. Gwinn