Re: Mitanni and Matsya

From: kishore patnaik
Message: 56533
Date: 2008-04-03

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...> wrote:

> The alternate forms of *Varuna as Aruna/~Uruwana make possible that
> Greek Ouranos had an Hurrian origin too. What was its original form?
> *Warwana, *Arwana, *Urwana, Wr.wana, *Aruna, *Warwuna, *Auruna?
> Vedic Varuna seems to combine traits of IE *Dyeus, Dumezilian
> Terrible Sovereign (maybe *h2Nsuros, since Varuna was Varuna Asura,
> as Odin was Ódinn Áss), Middle East Sea-God Ea-Enki (when Varuna
> became a Sea-God) and Sky-God An.


While linguistically it might be anything. But as such, the meanings of
Varuna (in IE) and Aruna (in Hitti) are different yet, they are related.

Varuna is an assuric God and is the Lord of Cosmological sea in
Vedas.(Witzel's idea that RV aryans have never seen a sea. I have no
comments on that now) He held many other posts such as maintaining the
cosmological Order, the Rta and punishing the violators of such discipline.
He was reduced to a functional god in the later periods, ruler of one
Direction and also, the lord of seas.

Mittani word Aruna, so far I know, means sea. Thus, the borrowing, to my
mind is clear- it is from IA (the unknown-the cosmological sea) to the
known(a physical sea).

It is interesting to note that the word Aruna in Skt has also grown from
Varuna. Varuna is also the Lord of 12 Adityas and many names of these
Adityas, later appropriated by Sun God, are related to Varuna and Mitra, the
twin assuric gods.

hope you agree with me.

regards,

Kishore patnaik


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