Re: Titan < Kwitan ?????

--- In cybalist@..., "Christopher Gwinn" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
> > (3), based on the interpretation of the names
> > themselves.
> > And the word Titan (Greek Ti:tán), which was used by the Latin
> poets as a
> > name for the 'sun', probably is derived from IE kweit-, "bright",

a

> suitable
> > epithet for a shining planet/star.
>
> Pokorny would agree - Titanos coming from *kuit-@..., from *kuei-
> "white/shine" (though he compares to Greek titanos "chalk").
>
> - Chris Gwinn

The chalk origin makes sense to me based on Jane Ellen Harrison's
Themis, where she describes a ritual where men would cover themselves
in chalk to assume the identity of the titans.

Cort Williams