[tied] Re: The indo european "race"

I understand your point, but I also think that such an explanation is
at best just as good as asuming that they somehow kept the memory
alive from a time when the original IE's where blond (if they were
blond). Couldn;t the old persians also be of fair complexion as the
more nordic peoples of Europe and Asia?
About the original IE land, the balkans is also hypothetical. As I
understand it there's also the steppe north of the Black+Caspian seas,
where blonds might've been common, if not prevalent; and there's also
Northern Anatoila, where Mediterranean features would be the norm just
like in the Balkans.







--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> >But also notice that the medo-persians mentioned in the Avesta a
> >mythological first king called Yima or Jima who expanded the IE
> >speaking tribes (Iranians) into Asia, describing him as blond.
>
> I'm not sure of this legend or what you're trying to put forth,

however

> it must be understood as well that there is a colour-symbolism that
> might affect the shape of these myths. So does reference to
> someone "blond" truely refer to an actual person who was "blond"
> or is blondness a symbolism for something else, like the sun or
> for a priest-chief caste a la Dumezil. This kind of imparting of
> special qualities to mythological people is often more symbolic
> than based on reality.
>
> Personally, I would imagine IE peoples to be largely of a
> Mediterranean type in appearance with some variation of course
> but unlikely that there were many blond-hair, blue-eyed people
> in the Balkans and surrounding areas at that time.
>
>
> = gLeN
>
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