Re: [tied] Information on IE aminal-men?

Look at personal names, clan names, geonyms and
ethnonyms:
Eponi, Orcades, Caithness are related (by some, at
least) to horse, boar, cat
The Scottish Clan Chattan "Cat Clan", the Irish Mac
Mahon "son of Bear"
Look at all this info and you'll find a gold mine

--- "C. Darwin Goranson" <cdog_squirrel@...>
wrote:

> I'm doing some research about the "wolf-men" and
> such of Indo-European
> cultures. I know of the Germanic and Hittite
> wolf/dog men, a bit about
> the Slavic werewolves, and a tiny bit about the
> bear-men of the
> Hittites and Germanics, but I suspect there's more
> material out there.
>
> Do you have any articles or books to suggest that
> would help me? I
> already photocopied relevant parts of "Indo-European
> and the Indo-
> Europeans" (Gamkrelidze, Ivanov: 1984),
> "Encyclopedia of Indo-European
> Culture" (Mallory, Adams: 1997), and "Oxford
> Introduction to Proto-Indo-
> European and the Proto-Indo-European World"
> (Mallory, Adams: 2006).
>
> If there are wolf traditions in the other groups
> (surely, there must
> be), or similar traditions with other animals (bear,
> beaver? otter?
> woodpecker? The last has the Picene name refering to
> it...), could you
> give me some pointers on where to look for more
> information?
>
>

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