Re: Non-Indo-European Vocabulary in Greek?/Achilles Heel

--- In cybalist@..., Andrei Markine <andrey@...> wrote:

> At 2/21/2002 07:52 AM +0000, tycho137 wrote:
> >--- In cybalist@..., "mrcaws" <MrCaws@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Do you happen to know where I could find info on the Talos/
> >Sun god
> > > connection? By the way, I posted something on connections
> >between
> > > Orion, Achilles, and Talos in #12328
> >
> >About O, A, and T being attacked in the heel, I note that in India,
> >Krishna is described as being attacked there also. So this might
> >be a result of perceiving one's heel as especially vulnerable; I
> >can't think of any special reason for that, however.
>
> In theory of Chinese foot massage, each part of foot is said to be

linked

> to some internal organ so that massaging the particular area of

foot can

> stimulate the linked organ. Excessive pain during massage is

explained that

> the linked organ is out of order.
> Now, the area around Achilles sinew (just above the heel, where

Achilles

> was presumably wounded) is linked to sexual glands... Probably,

strong

> Achilles was not that healthy and the Minos brazen man died not

exactly of

> bleeding...
>

> Andre

Hmm. Well, Orion was attacked by the scorpion while in pursuit of
Artemis, or for attempting to rape one of the followers of Artemis.
Wasn't Talos pursuing Medea in one version of hiss death?

Maybe death byh a wound in the heel is seen as a fitting death for
those who have commited sexual misconduct?

In another possibly related tradition, Orion had his eyes ripped out
for raping a woman. Oedipus tore out his eyes after he discovered
that he had been indaveratnly commiting a sexul crime as well.
Hephaestus eventualy helped Orion restore his eyesight by joruneying
to the home of dawn(the sun?). And Oedipus was lame from a young age
from having his ankles staked together when cast out by his birth
parents.

That means Hephaestus appears in a story with all 3 chracters:Achilles
(forging his armor), Talos(creatinmg him) and Orion(restoring his
eyesight). And Hephaestus was lame from when his birth parents casst
him out of heaven and he broke his ankles.