Re: Mitanni and Matsya

----- Original Message -----
From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:46 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
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> How the Vedas regard Varuna is of interest but not decisive.

Unless there's an older source than the Vedas which mentions
Varuna, then this of yours is a highly irrational claim.

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David, one must first have an original thought before someone like yourself
can characterize it as "irrational".

The development of Varuna after the period of the Rig Veda points the way to
a better understanding of what he might have been before the Rig Veda.

Surely that occurred to you.

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> Varuna existed long before the Vedas and long afterward.

Where do you find evidence of Varuna earlier than the Vedas,
that you can claim he existed so long before?

David

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Ancient peoples worshiped the same divine entities for thousands of years.

The cult developed, rituals changed, and sometimes a later epithet took the
place of an earlier one, but the divinities remained, at the core, the same.

Patrick

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