Re: Colchians, circumcision and hypergamy (was Vanir)

Torsten wrote

> Good hunting! Please post them on cybalist when you find them. In
> the meanwhile I will continue to believe with Herodotus, that the
> Egyptians and the Colchideans (and the Sea Peoples!) were the only
> circumcisers (and sister-humpers!) in the area.

Sea Peoples and Kholkoi were both Anatolian peoples. Sharden lived
in Sardis and later Sardinia. How much of Anatolia do you believe
were circumcising?

> BTW I believe circumcision was exported southwards; and now I read
> that the Chad languages were much closer to Egyptian than many
> other languages?

Egyptian, Chadic, Berber, Cushitic and Semitic are all Afro-Asiatic
languages. Of this two that we know of practice circumcision
(Egyptians and Semites).

Peoples of the Sea are unlikely to have been culturally related to
these. I feel circumcision was independently discovered by both
peoples as a form of male initiation (and possible birth control!)
This is certainly the case with Aboriginal circumcision in Australia.

Regards

John