--- Alexander Stolbov <
astolbov@...> wrote:
> Chimera
> It is a monster with Eastern roots and a distinctive
> metallurgical smell:
>
http://www.unifi.it/unifi/surfchem/solid/bardi/chimera/origins.html
> (By the way, to kill Chimera Bellerophon had to
> mount Pegasus like an
> Amazon)
> Could not the words Chimera and Cimmerians have the
> same origin?
*****GK: I have a Greek possibility in my notes:
KHEIMEPIOC, which means "wintery", and supposedly
point to the inclement weather on the Northern shores
of the Pontus (for Greeks). There is also a Phoenician
theory: KAMAR ("dark") with allusions to "Cimmerian
darkness". They are known as GIMIRA from the country
GAMIRRA in Assyrian tablets of the 8th-7th c. BC.*****
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