Re: PIE motherhood

This is more of what I referred to in the other
thread, Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern influence
on the Indo-Europeans. It would be nice to sift
the data and see just what originally belonged
to the former, and what to the latter. Influence
obviously came in stages, with Christianity being
the most recent, and of greatest impact.

David

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "lifeiscool86" <lifeiscool86@...>
> wrote:
> > Is there any linguistic or archaeological evidence that the PIE
> > women covered their heads? I've noticed many traditional European
> > women, including in my own IE inheritance, wearing "veils" to
cover
> > their heads.
>
> This might stem from one of Paul's epistles (I don't remember which
> one) where he explain why women should wear hats in church but men
> shouldn't (or something like that). This might be a Jewish or Roman
> custom that spread to other cultures.