Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

From: Alexander Stolbov
Message: 29168
Date: 2004-01-06

Glen:.
> Who's to
> say that a significant number of _Semites_ didn't use the Minoan thalassic
> portal to escape to the edge of the gamma quadrant where the shapeshifting
> Basque dominion resided.


I would ask West Semites:
"Why are you going to use the Minoan thalassic portal if you have under
command your own Ugaritic portal which is older than the Minoan one and is
not less powerful?
Who learned the Minoans to navigate, to built very specific palaces (like in
Ebla or Mari) instead of fortresses (like in Anatolia or Greece), to grow
grape and to drink wine from very special dishes with Semitic names, to use
the potter wheel, to use a linear kind of writing (first invented in Ugarit,
although a cuneiform kind remained the general writing in that city)?
Not you?"

Alexander