Re: [tied] Targitaos, "father of all Scythians"

Artemis was depicted as fish-tailed (Pausanias) in some Greek village.
Could be Eurynome?

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From: george knysh <gknysh@...>
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Targitaos, "father of all Scythians"


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> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > Absolutely clear??? All that we know about Mitannic
> > Tirgutawija is that it was a woman's name. We don't
> > know it it was theophoric, we don't know if it was
> > really Indo-Aryan or maybe Hurrian. If I could be
> > sure that the real pronunciation was something like
> > *dirgatawija, I'd support the theory was Indo-Aryan
> > *di:rgHa-tawi:- in disguise, which of course would
> > leave Derketo/Tirgata as accidentally similar. That
> > Tirgatao was Indo-Aryan and related to Tirgutawija
> > is Trubachev's assumption, ventured without a shred
> > of concrete evidence. After all, you can find
> > phonetically similar names even in English, e.g.
> > Targett or Thurgood.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
> >
> ******GK: I have very serious doubts about both
> TIRGUTAWIYA and TIRGATAO being Indo-Aryan, despite the
> fact that they appear in Indo-Aryan contexts. I still
> think, however that there is something that binds all
> these names together. Can there be an explanation of
> [T-*-R-G-*-T-&] by reference to a non-IE language?
> (Not Turkic or English please!!!)One that can be
> linked to the locations where the cult of the
> Fish-Goddess is attested> Like Babylonian or some West
> Semitic language.*****
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