Re: Velesu/Volosu

And, all you guys ignored my idea that 'blago' original meaning may
be 'cattle', and later meaning 'goods'.
My grandmother still today use word 'blas·c·e' for a cow (singular),
and 'blago' for cows.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mrcaws" <MrCaws@...> wrote:
> Here is a tidbit I found in Funk and Wagnall's Standard
Dectiponary
> of Folklore Mythology and Legend:
>
> "...after the sovereign Perunu the oath of 971 invokes volosu as
the
> god of flocks. Also, a Russian form velesu is attested, and the
Czech
> tradition of the 15th and 16h centuies remembers a demon named
Veles.
> The alternation of two variants velesu and velsu(wherefrom volosu)
> seem to root in Primitive Slavic. Volosu was identified with
Apollo
> in the old Russian literary pattern and was replaced by St. Blasius
> (Vlas) in Christianized folklore."
>
> Note that there were markings above the u resembling a horizontal
> parenthesis ) in the above text.
>
>
> Cort Williams