Re: Vishnu PIE traits

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

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> IE gods related to Vishnu (Krishna/Madhava/Ra:ma):
> Norse Vidarr
> Latin Mars Gradivus (? the pontifex priest)
> Greek Herakles, Briareos/Aigaion
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> Is there any Mitanni god equivalent to Vishnu? I see some IE traits

in Bible, specially in Book of Judges and Exodus. Moses had a
midianite wife, perhaps there was a Mitanni substratum in some of the
Hebraic myths. Moses "opened the Red Sea and crossed it", I think it's
a Vishnuvic trait.

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> Joao SL

Vishnu is not listed in this table.

http://fantalov.tripod.com/gods1.htm

I do not think Vishnu has any IE analogies.

<http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/DIET.pdf>

M. Kelkar

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