From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4988
Date: 2000-12-09
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From: Mark Odegard <markodegard@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:39 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE constellations -- ex oriente lux
> Piotr wrote
>
> > (c) IE *xster- (*h2ster-) does not refer specifically to Venus; the
> latter is often called "Morning/Evening" (Us.ana-, Hesperos, etc.),
> but not "the Star".
>
> Umm. This association has occured to me before, but I've never posted
> it. Am I folk-etymologizing? *Xster seems awfully close to Kastor
> ('beaver' in Greek).
It's interesting that one of the epic Twins in Mahabharata is Nakula
"mongoose" - a link to Kastor "beaver"?
> Kastor and Poludeukes, of course, are the Divine Twins, Leda's boys.
> Their association with the morning/evening star is attested.
>
> And we in the US don't call it the plow/plough. It's the Big Dipper.
>
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong : Is the Ursa Major also seen as a "bear"
in some North American Indian mythology?
Joao SL
Rio