Patrick on hyperetymologizing Neto: from Neith:
> If you disbelieve in Nostratic: no. If you believe
> in Nostratic: yes.
Nostratic isn't a 'belief'. It's a conclusion one may
have, a theory, an as-yet vague explanation of some
long-range linguistic relationships. Using Nostratic
as a security blanket to justify falsifiable
etymologies is not fairplay. As much as Nostratic
needs a lot of work, many Nostraticists wouldn't
touch your Proto-World theories with a ten-foot pole.
So this has nothing to do with Nostratic at all.
> The sun-god and justice are always associated in
> ancient mythology.
No, in Greek mythology, that was clearly Zeus' job
because Apollo, god of sun and beauty, was too busy
making goo-goo eyes at himself in a mirror :)
However, I do think that in Etruscan mythology, Tin
is really the sun god and is falsely labeled the
"sky god" because of misguided comparisons with IE
*dei- and *deiwo- instead of looking into the language
itself _first_ to see the likelier value of the name.
Now, if /tin/ really means "sun", not "sky", (along
with being clearly "day" in some instances), and
added to this his association with Roman Jupiter,
one might have an example of a sun god associated
with justice outside of Egyptian religion. This makes
sense if you already suspect that Tyrrhenian beliefs
were heavily entwined with those of Egypt.
= gLeN
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