Re: [tied] *Xster, Turan, Hathor & *`ATtaru

From: Max Dashu
Message: 6334
Date: 2001-03-05

On Glen's wacky playhouse theory:

>Now to the crux of the idea (finally!), *Hattor might then easily end up
>docking in northern Egypt where the Egyptians, upon hearing the bizarre
>name, would understandably misanalyze it as */Hat-Howr/ "House of Horus".
>The fact that Hathor is a _cow_ goddess associated with the _sky_ and
>_mother_ to the sun-pharoah should sound familiar to you IE mythologists out
>there because it's a European myth rehashed to suit native Egyptian tastes.

Egyptians had really old cow traditions of their own, no need for IE
borrowings.

But in any case, Hathor is Greek. The original Kemetic is Het-heru, or
sometimes Het-hert: house of falcon, the heavens.

Max Dashu

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