From: Rick McCallister
Message: 54816
Date: 2008-03-07
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> ----- 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
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> > 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
>
> ***
>
> 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
>
>