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cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@...>
wrote:
> Is there any good etymology for Greek god HERME:S (HERME:AS) ?
> It's plausible connect him with the lunar god ARMASH, IRMASH, from
Anatolia ? In this case Hermes would be some kind of Moon-God,
although there's some other possible traits:
> 1) The figure of the Trickster Messenger of Gods, the IE god of Fire
or the Messenger gods from Asia.
> 2) The figure of the IE god of cattle and travellers, like Indian
Pushan and the equally Greek Pa:n (< *Pauson)
> Joao SL
> Rio
The original abode of Hermes may have been Mt. Hermon, now on the
cease-fire line between Israel and Syria near Lebanon. He was
probably claimed as an "ancestor" by the Phoenician king Hiram,
who lived at the time of the Biblical kings David and Solomon.
I Kings 5:15 - 26.
I have "reconstructed" two anthropomorphic (body-part) maps,
one of [probably] Hermes in the mid-East and one of
[probably] Aphrodite in north Africa. Charts indicating the
correspondence between body-parts and geographic areas for
each of the "maps" are available by return email.
Israel Cohen
izzy_cohen@...