Re: Latin Volcanus and Ossetic Værgon

--- In cybalist@..., liberty@... wrote:

> In "The Pre-Christian Religion of the Alans" V. I. Abaev derives

the

> name of the Ossetic god of the forge Kurdalægon from an older Kurd-
> Alæ-Wærgon meaning "The Alan Smith Wærgon." He claims that Wærgon
> and the Latin Volcanus are cognates and derivatives of *wlkwo-

"wolf"

> and that "Apparently, among both the Alans and the Romans the cult

of

> the god of fire and the forge was related by descent to the totemic
> cult of the wolf." Can anybody comment on this? Is Wærgon in fact
> cognate with Volcanus and if so are there any other cognates of
> Volcanus in Indo-Iranian?
> -David

I vaguely recall reading about some Linear B inscription containing
a "khruso-(w)ergos", gold-smith (quoted from memory!), the latter
part being cognate to "work".

Torsten