Re: Swiftness of Indra

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Swiftness of Indra


> After contact with Greek religion, Jupiter became a
> clone of Zeus. Before contact with Greek religion,
> Roman religion was based on nature spirits and
> reverence to ancestors
> Afterwards, it virtually merged with Greek religion
> Read the Wikipedia sites on Roman Mythology, Etruscan
> Mythology, et al.
> I'm guessing you've never read anything about these
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > 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

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So, Jupiter was a nature spirit? How little you know of Roman religion!

Roman and Greek religions both are further individual developments from the
religion of the Indo-European speakers who brought them forth.

In that early religion, the supreme god was the weather/sky-god, of whom
Zeus is the Greek representative and Jupiter the Roman one.

Having had the same origin, it is quite natural that they had many traits in
common. If the Romans had never come into actual contact with the Greek,
Zeus and Jupiter would have resembled each other.

Actually, I have read a great deal about ancient religion; and, at my
website, I have a separate section of several essays under the rubric
Proto-Religion.

Why not illustrate wuth an example or two how Jupiter was transformed by
Roman contact with Greece.

Was he a nature spirit before? Was Zeus?


Patrick