Re: Oltak

From: tgpedersen
Message: 20899
Date: 2003-04-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
> >
> > <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> > <tgpedersen@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Heyerdahl says 'Oltak' is the Armenian version
> > of the name, but
> > > > doesn't provide a reference. Is Oltak mentioned
> > by any other
> > sources
> > > > than Plutarch and Appian?
> > >
> > > The full story of Olthacus the Dandarian and his
> > miscarried attempt
> > to
> > > assassinate Lucullus can be found here:
> > >
> > > http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lucullus.html
> > >
> > It does sound a bit like Snorri's description of
> > Odin, doesn't it?
>
> *****GK: Well, let's just say that to any normal mind
> unaffected by Odinist lunacy, this sounds very much
> like the description of Olthacus the Dandarian.
> According to Strabo, the Dandarii were a Sindic
> [=Pontic Aryan] people. They lived north of the Kuban'
> (Hypanis), though their "royal" city was Gorgippia by
> the sea. They sometimes rebelled against their
> Bosporan suzerains. Mithradates' son Pharnak once used
> the Hypanis to "inundate" them into submission.******
>
All right, I'll read Shchukin's article myself then. And for the
record, if anybody wondered, I'm not driven by some 'Odinist'
religious trend.

Torsten