> An eponymous hero for the As people? The Vani state is in Colchis.
Is
> this another version of the war between the Aesir and the Vanir?
>
> Torsten
Superb!
This Azon-Parnavaz story looks like a real door-opener.
Do You know anything about when this was written?
I found a page on Georgian history:
http://members.tripod.com/ggdavid/georgia/history.htm and it seems
that the story would fit to reflect the events in the mid 8th century
BC when the union between Diakhi and Qolhi disintegrated.
Is Diakhi possibly = the Daci e. g. Dudo talks about (remeber that he
is just reporting the opinion of "the danes") .
Who writes about the Daci first? Maybe One should search the cybalist
Archives for that.
I also have downloaded an Oxford Journal of Archaeology article by
Otar Lordkipanidze,in issue 20(1) 1-38 describing much of the
archaeological situation around Colchis. He also has a theory on the
golden fleece.
In essence it is that the fleece was golden beacause fleece probably
was used to pan gold with in the area.
I suppose I shouldn't put it in the files area for copyright reasons.
Anyway I note that there are found many human-figures with neck rings.
Cf. the human figures with neck rings from Skåne and Denmark found
from late bronze age V and VI.
Cf. also all the gold neck rings from Scandinavian Iron age and the
tree figure from Rude-Eskilstrup from the fifth century AD. I'm
unsure if there really is an uncut tradition, but the bronze rings
found in Colchis actually look similar to both the bronze rings of
the late bronze age and some of the gold rings of the iron Age in
Scandinavia.
Somehow I like the idea that the immgration to Scand. could have been
a late bronze age affair, instead of an iron age one.
Best wishes
Anders