Re: JUPITER+ZEUS

But as the beneficent weather-god, Typhon is Zeus' bad-hair day.

Patrick

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Subject: Re: [tied] JUPITER+ZEUS


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> From: Joao S. Lopes
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> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:30 PM
> Subject: [tied] JUPITER+ZEUS
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> Greece and Rome shares a common development: in both places the Storm-God
> was mingled with the Sky-Father. In PIE mythology Sky Father *Dyeus was
> the
> father of main deities, including the raging warrior Storm-God (cf.
> Dyaus/Indra, Odin/Thorr). In Greece and Rome Dyeus was mixed with
> Storm-God,
> and maybe absorbing too the Dumezilians Sovereigns, Terrible (Jupiter
> Stator) and Law-Giver (Dius Fidius). In Greece the scenario is more
> complex
> to make ultimated assumptions, but the "fathery" role of *Dyeus was
> transfered to Ouranos, while Zeus became the Storm-God, probably absorbing
> traits of Semitic Ba'al and Anatolic Teshub (and even Sumerian Enlil).
> The relation of trio Zeus-Poseidon-Hades seems very similar to Ugaritic
> Baal-Yam-Mut, with the most demonic features transfered to Typhon. The
> struggle Kronos x Zeus is more like Kumarbish x Teshub; and the rivality
> between the smart Prometheus and the ferocious Zeus seems to me an echo of
> Enlil x Ea quarrellings in Mesopotamian mythology.
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> JS Lopes
> http://mitoblogos.blogspot.com
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> you are working at such an abstract level,
> that anything works.
> I guess it would be more interesting to work
> on what differentiates these gods.
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> And if I remember right,
> Teshub generates Ullikummi
> who is the equivalent of Typhon.
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> Zeus did not generate Typhon,
> your equivalences don't work.
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> A.
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