From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 55234
Date: 2008-03-15
What I meant to say is that this pair of brothers Ba'al and Yamm (Nahar) was represented in Greek Semitic adstratum by Zeus and Nereus. Later, Nereus was replaced by Poseidon (Poseidahon, Potidahon) as Zeus's brother. I'm not saying that Greeks picked Poseidon from the Semitic myths
Ugaritic At_iratu (As^erat), Lady of the Sea would be related to Do:ris, or to Amphitrite, Poseidon's wife. Perhaps amph/Itrite: < *At_iratu. Other possibiliy is that Te:thys represented this old marine creatress. Or Rhea? Could be originally a sea or river--goddess?
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From: "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@... com.br>
To: <cybalist@... s.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:59 AM
Subject: Res: [tied] Semitic influences in Greek Mythology
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Linking Nahar to Ne:reus allows an assumption that perhaps the original
aquatic brother of Zeus was him instead of Poseidon.
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I think that may be an unwarranted assumption.
Why should the PIE's not have had a 'river god' named Poseidon _while_ the
Semites had a 'river-god' named Nahar?
Nahar will have been originally the brother of Ba'al.
As Nereus, he is an addition to not a replacement for Poseidon.
Patrick