What's the origin of the god KRONOS?
Kronos seems to be a Greek equivalent of Hurrian
Kumarpish (etymology?), the god who dethroned the father of gods, castrated him
by swallowing his penis (uuurgh!), and, spitting his semen down to the
earth, gave rise to the newer gods, who would be Kumarpish's foes.
What gods were born from this event? The usual list
is Teshub (storm-god), Shuwalijash (*Sxwel "sun"?) (or Tashmetu) and Tigris
River. Sometimes it's included Shaushqa and a "love god".
This event seems to be equivalente to 1)Kronos
vomitting his children, 2) Dionysos rising from Zeus''s thigh 3) Aphrodite
borning in the sea foam from Ouranos's semen.
In some Semitic mythologies Kumarpish was
identified to Dagon "grain, corn, wheat". So, I think Kronos < *G^r@...,
animated form of neuter *g^r@... "corn, grain", in a non-Greek Kentum IE
dialect (perhaps Hittite-like, or Tocharian-like).
1) Anatolian had a god Kumarpish
2) Semitic people called him Dagan
(DGN)
3) Some IE people translated Dagan as
*G^r@...
I think in the archaic form of Theogony, Kronos
castrated Ouranos, swallowed his penis, and spitted the young gods Zeus
(Teshub), Hera or Athena or Aphrodite (Shaushka), and another ones.
I'm looking for etymologies for Hesiodic and
non-Hesiodic Titans' names: Okeanos,Te:thys, Kreios, Koios, Iapetos (cf.
Jafeth), Eurymedon, Themis, Hyperion, Theia, Mnemosyne, Atlas, Dione, Phoibe:,
Rheia.
I'd like to see your comments and
corrections.