Re: [tied] Atri, the Devourer

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4556
Date: 2000-11-01

OK, I think Atri may represent some kind of ancient god, maybe a "Fire-Elder", then "Devourer" (not the Trickster Fire-God, messenger of gods, Loki-Prometheus-Agni). Maybe he's like the Norse Fire Giant Logi (a doublet of Loki?). As I said before I'm working with a hypothesis the PIE first generation of gods was 7 "Elders", including Sky-Father (*Dyeus P@...). I'm trying to compare the 7 Rshis with another IE deities, but until know is very difficult and complex, because there are many different lists of Rshis or Prajapatis.
The other ones are:
Pulaha (seer of asuras)
Pulastya (father of Kubera & Ravana)
Angiras - father of Brihaspati  (seer of gods)
Kratu
Vasis.t.a (owner of plenty cow, Surabhi)
Ma:rici (father of Kashyapa)
 
I'm trying to discover the concept of these 7 IE Elders: Pleiades? Ursa Major? Seven Planets?
----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Atri, the Devourer

Not so much "instead of" as "beside". As a matter of fact, I've found both Atri and Attri listed as Shiva's epithets, both glossed as "Devourer". My idea is that attr- would tend to reduce to atr- except when there is strong analogic pressure to preserve or restore the geminate, as in attri:, the feminine counterpart of attR.
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Atri, the Devourer

That's what I thought. But it's strange atr- instead of attr-.