Re: [tied] Gundestrup

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

> In a message dated 2/23/2003 8:19:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> kalyan97@... writes:
>
>
> > Assuming that the parallel with the Sarasvati-Sindhu (IVC) seal

(s)

> > is valid, I am presenting below a few examples of furnace types,
> > many from Santali, which explain some glyphs, using the rebus

method

> > (similar sounding words explaining the glyphs as well as the
> > underlying substantive `message'). Of course, extensive

linguistic

> > studies have to be done to determine the Pre-Indo-Aryan-Substrate
> > (PIAS) forms.
> >
> >
> Since, among other reasons, all this would require that the

language of

> the seals be an identifiable form of an Indic language, I hope you

will

> excuse my skepticism. And since, apart from the background

figures, most of

> the iconography on the cauldron has parallels in other Celtic art,

I'll have

> to doubt this rebus system with regards to the cauldron. If

nothing else, it

> would require some Indic-speaking Thracians who could explain the

symbolism

> of the images to their patrons in order for there to be a point.
>
> David Fickett-Wilbar

How about some ex-Pontic Indic-speaking Cimmerians commisioning the
cauldron from Thracians and Celts on their way north to Himmerland
and the British Isles?

Torsten