From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 46113
Date: 2006-09-19
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes"_______________________________________________________
> <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> > I'm starting to gather information about Earth
> Goddess
> > in PIE mythology. There era many alternative
> views,
> > and I'm still indecise:
> > 1- Sky's Wife, mother of gods (cf.India and
> Greece,
> > maybe Norse, but I think Greek and Indian
> hierogamies
> > reflected Sumerian source, not IE)
> > 2- Mother of gods, alone
> > 3- Thunder God's wife
> >
> > Etymological traits:
> > dheg^hem-
> > h1er-
> > pLtH2-
> > bhuH-
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> Joao,
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> Various thoughts pop into my head, I cannot be of
> much assistance in
> the linguistics aspect, but from a mythologic view
> one might wish to
> explore:
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> Vedic Prithvi
> Iranian Anahita
> Germano-Norse Nerthus & Frigg (possibly a cognate of
> Prithivi?)
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> Best wishes,
> Aydan
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