It would be very interesting to know about this study:
The Third Donkey: Origin Legends and Some Hidden Indo-European Themes," by Calvert Watkins, connects the legend of the daughters of Danaus, as dramatized by Aeschylus in his
Suppliants, with similar stories in the Indic and Hittite traditions, RV 10.86 and the Hittite Zalpa tale. Watkins further argues that this myth is "intimately linked" (p. 65) with the IE horse sacrifice ritual. All three stories feature multiple births and illicit sex, either incestuous or bestial. In the Indic and Hittite versions wild donkeys feature as symbols for male sexuality, and a donkey or horse is sacrificed. But there is no trace of the horse sacrifice in Greek; where, then, is the third donkey? Watkins observes that Pindar Pythian 10.31-36 describes the sacrifice of sexually aroused donkeys, and suggests that the two parts of the original story have become detached from each other in
Greek.
tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> escreveu:
from
http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/publications/pdf/southernpalaima.pdf
"
From the Greek world, Andreas Willi - Morpurgo Davies's Indo-
Europeanist successor in classical philology at Oxford - uses Greek
áphenos "wealth" aphrós "foam" (beside Welsh afon Latin amnis "river")
to trace a preserved "flowing river = affluent prosperity" metaphor (as
in English abundance Latin unda "wave", Greek ploû-tos ~ ple(w)-
o "flow"), built to a convincingly posited IE word for "fast-flowing
river", *h2ebh-r/n-.
"
Oh he does, does he? That's my chair, mr Willi.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Op.html
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html
(tooting my own horn once more)
Torsten
Yahoo! doce lar.