Res: [tied] JUPITER+ZEUS

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From: Joao S. Lopes
To: cybalist@... s.com
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:30 PM
Subject: [tied] JUPITER+ZEUS

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.

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.

And if I remember right,
Teshub generates Ullikummi
who is the equivalent of Typhon.

Zeus did not generate Typhon,
your equivalences don't work.

A.
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