[tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

--- In cybalist@..., cas111jd@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > *aus-ro- lexeme in Germanic *Austro:n (Easter)
> >
> > *(a)usro- in Latin would must be *(a)ubr- (Osco-Umbrian aufr-/ofr-
> /ufr-).
> > How about *umbrus (Umbrian)? Could be a nasalized form of *ubrus?

A

> meaning
> > similar to Ausonia?
> >
> > what's the etymology of OE earendel = ON aurvandill = OHG

orentil ?

> > Perhaps O:rion < *Ausriyon, throught a different IE dialect in
> Greece.
> >
> As I recall, Orion's myth was centered in the east Aegean and so
> might have been adopted from Lydia. He might be a sacrificial hero
> character similar to Acteon. Hunter gods had a habit of getting
> killed tragically. Might his name be adopted from an ancient
> Anatolian dialect?

I looked up the constellation Orion in the good old Funk and
wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.
It listed a ton of cultures that associated constellation Orion with
figures from myth. Hunting seems to be a pretty common motif. The
Hindus knew the constellation as Mrigra the stag, a form of Prajapati.

The Mesopotamians identified it with Tammuz. There's a sacrificial
hero. And the Greeks had many different names for the
constellation:The giant, the hunter, The warrior, the cok's foot, and
the double axe. The last one intrigues me-The sacrificial double axe?

Cort Williams