Re: [tied] Beekes and IE divinities.

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From: Mark Odegard

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:08 AM

Subject: [tied] Beekes and IE divinities.

I've been skimming through Beekes' book again (Comparative Indo-European Linguistics). On p. 39, he flat out states: "there is only one name of an Indo-European god which we know".

 

This is Day-Sky-Father, Zeus, etc, of course.  He dismisses a relationship between Varuna-Ouranos as untenable.

 

His statement, however, is contradicted by others. We do know the name of Dawn: EIEC gives as *Haeusos. Something in the way of a name is also reconstructed for Moist Mother Earth.

 

Beekes does have his idiosyncracies. He also flatly states that PIE lacked [a]. I think we are expected to humor the great man.

 

Mark.