From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56648
Date: 2008-04-04
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From: Patrick Ryan
> > 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.
>
> In other words, you have no evidence.
>
> Brian
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I have his name, properly interpreted.
And there is comparative evidence (Ouranos).
Patrick
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This supposed piece of evidence in Greek
has been rejected half a century ago.
Even Dumezil, whom you claim to have read,
rejected this idea.
I read Dumezil too, in the original language.
He has never claimed Varuna was a Sea-god.
And I suppose he would have rejected this idea
which conflicts with his own three-way system
in the worst possible manner.
Arnaud
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