Re: The Scythian Brothers

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> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 11:37 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: The Scythian Brothers
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> I will have you know that I am the oldest of three brothers.

Hrmph! :)

> Now that's at least one thing I'm an expert of, and I can assure

you

> all that Herodotus' description of their roles is accurate. The

first

> is the heir by definition, the next the hard worker, and then along
> comes prince Charming and steals the show.
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> The whole structure of the tale reminds one of Andersen's "Klods-
> Hans" (I don't know its name in English) or Cinderella. The two

first

> siblings may have the rules on their side, but they don't have true
> xwarena, exactly because they are bound by the rules. And (note:

I'm

> only doing comparative IE mythology here!) the structure may be
> described as: High, Just-as-high, Third (tri-ta-?). I believe the
> Armenians have a three-brothers story too.

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Just about every nation in the world has a version of this tale
(Simple Ivan, etc.). "The Three Feathers", as recorded by the Grimm
Brothers, begins:
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> There was once upon a time a King who had three sons, of whom two
were clever and wise, but the third did not speak much and was
simple, and was called the Simpleton ...
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> -- and guess who got the fairest maiden and the crown.
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> Piotr
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Yes, of course, it probably has a catalog number in anthropology, but
I was thinking of three brothers as ancestors, see

http://highhistory.com/christianity.htm

Torsten