Re: [tied] Re: Kullanda

--- hwhatting <hwhatting@...> wrote:

>
> Puhvel gives a similar explanation in his
> "Comparative Mythology" (in my
> edition - John Hopkins University Press, 1989 - on
> p. 113/114, near the
> end of the chapter "ancient Iran"): "...and
> Paralátai, thus the
> consecrated power elite whose name (with l < d)
> recalls the Avestan
> Paradata, title of Haošyanha, one of the shadowy
> mythical
> sovereigns preceding Yama Xšaeta...". He compares
> the word to
> Vedic puró-hita- "priest in charge" and Latin
> praefectus. So he
> seems to assume that this originally was a title
> meaning, "set/put
> before (others) > superior, prefect, head".
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hans-Werner

****GK: Thanks for this. We have Puhlvel in our
University Library (but dated "c.1987" for some
reason). I'll check him out today, even though it's
-40 Celsius windchill here...(:=)) ****




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