Re: ROOTS AT LAST!!!

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, x99lynx@... wrote:

> "S.Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@...> writes:
> <<About Haraxwaiti. Many Croats claim that they are descendants

from this

> region. Sarasvati > Haraxwaiti > Hravat > Kravat > Croat. Counter?
> Nationalism!>>
>
> I'm on the road, but this made things so clear that I had to write.
>
> I'm not sure what being named after a river in India (or wherever)

has to do

> with Croat nationalism -- what did I miss the news? Are the Croats

claiming

> they have title to some land in India or something? -- but I do see

a much

> more telling genealogy revealed.
>
> Just consider what impact THIS will have on our interpretation of

history:

>
> Sarasvati > Haraxwaiti > Hravat > Kravat....
> Sarasvati > Sarosvatki > Sorotki > Sorok (!)
>
> Kravat [i] Sorok!!! Mere coincidence? Ha! At last, the Urheimat

of the

> shirt and tie!! The birthplace of civilized men's fashions! Let's

see what

> the French have to say about that!!!
>
> Counter? Abject haberdashery!!!
> SL
>
> PS - There may be a river named Ko-a-ton-a in Hawaii and if I were

the

> Croats -- with all due and much respect to the Indian nation -- I'd

rather be

> named after a river in Hawaii, especially if it gives you any kind

of a claim

> to ancestral land, particularly ocean-front.

Ah! To be on the road again! How I miss it. Nothing sweeter than
travelling; it clears your mind of other peoples' imagined sacred
borders and stupid claims to territories. But sweeter still to return
to your own little garden patch which hopefully hasn't been trampled
down by stupid other peoples in the meanwhile.

Torsten