Re: [tied] PIE constellations -- ex oriente lux

On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 23:47:03 , "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>Piotr:
>>(a) It's hard to tell how old the association of `Athtar with Venus >really
>>is.
>
>Unfortunately, this is true. However we at least know that the deity's name
>is reconstructable in proto-Semitic and that this language is dated long
>before 3000 BCE. We also know that the astral association with the deity
>goes at least as far back as this.

There is Berber (Tamasheq) <atri> (pl. <itran>) "star", which suggests
a Proto-AfroAsiatic root (but I have no way of cheking that).


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