Re: [tied] Scythian Cognates -- more speculation

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> A brilliant idea, Sasha! Supposing that Targitaus is
> a mangled Greek version of, say, *�rika-tavah-
> 'having threefold strength' (or rather its late
> variant *�riga-tavah- with the voicing of
> intervocalic *k), Av. �raetaona- (*�rai-tauna-)
> 'thrice potent' would be for all intents and
> purposes the same name despite the trivial suffixal
> differences (the same roots recur in both parts of
> the compound). Are we on the trail of the oldest
> foundation myth of the Iranians? :)

*****GK: What we have here is rather an indication of
how this old foundation myth of Thraetaona and his
youngest son (presumably carried in by the Iranic
Royal Scythians?)was creatively incorporated into the
legends of "Old Scythia" (the daughter of the
River)with a pinch from the Middle East (the
fish-goddess Tirgata/Derketo/Atargatis, become
snake-maiden, with her son Targitao(s)). The Mitannian
and Pontic (Maeotian) names, which were surely not
garbled Greek, also seem significant
(Tirguta-wyia,Tirgatao)*****

>
> Piotr
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alexander Stolbov
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Scythian Cognates -- more
> speculation
>
>
> If so may I return to a unanswered question I asked
> before:
>
> According to Herodotus Paralatai is a tribe
> descending from the youngest of 3 sons of Targitaus
> - Kolaxais, the king who possessed xwarena (if we
> accept the mentioned etymology).
> According to Avesta Aryan is a tribe descending from
> the youngest of 3 sons of Thraetaona - Arya, the
> king who possessed xwarena.
>
> Could Targitaus be linguistically compared to
> Thraetaona?
>

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