From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 5135
Date: 2000-12-21
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From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:39 PM
Subject: [tied] Yama's buffalo... or Manus' Horse?
>
> Don't I know it. However, if the Heracles saga is repeated in other IE
myths
> like the great Indra and IE mythologists have this overwhelming urge to
> reconstruct personnages like the mortal hero *Trito whose story serves the
> same exact function as that of Heracles and Aptya Trita, I doubt we're
> simply dealing with a late Greek-only borrowing from the MiddleEast.
>
I think Aptya Trita is more like Herakles's helper Iolaos.