Re: [tied] Re: Poseidon and the Underground Snake-God

I agree partially, one of the aspects of Poseidon is a subterranean-freshwater deity, perhaps a trait of PIE *Ap- Nepo:t

Greek gods are very complex to analyse, because almost all were a blendind of different gods, IE and pre-IE, Anatolian, Semitic, Egyptian.

Joao SL

Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote: > The trinity Zeus-Poseidon-Hades seem to me an > influence of Ugaritic/Phenician three gods > Bel-Yam-Mot. *If* the name Poseidon/Potei-da is assumed to literally mean "land- lord" as per Kretschmer-Kerényi-Schachermeyr's interpretation, the compound is the wrong way round for Greek (since Potei-da literally means "lord-land"); consequently, one might even regard Potei-da as an over-literal translations of the similar Semitic god name Ba`al Ars = "lord [of the] land" found at Ugarit and elsewhere. Belief in Poseidon may have been brought to Greece fom the Middle East. The ancient West Semitic god Ba'al Ars was also known as Ba'al Zebul, an epithet translated by some as "lord of the [depth of the] earth". Thus, not far removed from Mycenaean (Linear B) Potei-da "lord of the earth (?)". The Ugaritic god Ba'al Ars presided, in particular, over subterranean (chthonian) waters. The Phoenician coasts near Ugarit were known to the ancients for a particularity: sweet-water springs emerge there from the sea-bed in proximity to seashores. Hence the hypothesis that Ba'al Ars, god of underground waters, was associated, like the Greek Poseidon, with the sea as well. Kindest regards, Francesco Brighenti

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