Re: Swiftness of Indra

You are always full of specious generalizations straight out of Wiki.

Well, you can show I am wrong by discussing briefly what changed in the
Roman conception of Jupiter after contact with the Greeks.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Swiftness of Indra


> Yes they did, only they called him Jupiter. After
> intense contact with the Greeks, their concept of
> Jupiter was essentially the same as the Greek concept
> of Zeus. Given that the names are cognate, there was
> no need to rename Jupiter.
> My understanding is that Roman religion was quite
> different before they assimilated Greek culture.
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> > To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Swiftness of Indra
> >
> > > Sure they did. After contact with the Greeks --at
> > > first through Etruscan; the Roman pantheon became
> > a
> > > mirror image of Olympus
> > > They remodeled their gods on Greek models and even
> > > adopted Greek deities wholesale --e.g. Apollo,
> > > Bacchus, Pluto (whose realm was Hades)
> > >
> >
> > ***
> >
> > Sure they did not!
> >
> > But that is not the point. I have tried to get
> > through to you that my
> > remarks concerned supreme gods.
> >
> > Did the Romans worship Zeus?
> >
> > Not everyone is rootless, Rick.
> >
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> > ***
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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