--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote:
> It's *bHag-, not *bHag^- (Skt. bHaga-, Slavic *bogU,
> with vocalism suggesting, if not proving, an early
> loan rather than inheritance)./.../ it's probable
that
> Iranian religious influence on Slavic dates to
> Middle Iranian ("Sarmatian") times.
>
> Piotr
*****GK: This receives a measure of contextual
confirmation from history and archaeology. The first
arguably Slavic material remains (via the method of
retrospective archaeogenetic) are those of the period
200 BC-200 AD, which also sees the massive advent of
the Sarmatians into the European steppes. Whatever the
impact or non-impact of Zoroastrianism on this
process, it is clear enough that some of the Alans
were practitioners of the religion: the city of
Theodosia was renamed "Artabda" with the -(a)bda
referencing the "seven immortals" (amerta spenta) of
classical Zoroastrianism. As late as Khazar times the
burial customs of a substantial proportion of the
Alanic Khazars (those of the Donets, in the area of
Old Saltiv mear modern Kharkiv [the culture of
Khazaria is usually called "Saltovian"]were
Zoroastrian (as were those of the Khazar contingents
residing in Kyiv in the period ca. 760-860 AD just
prior to the arrival of the Norse dynasts). Of course
the main "bog"-ing influence would likely have
occurred before the Slavic expansions of the 5th-6th
centuries.******
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