Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya

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Subject: Re: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


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> From: Patrick Ryan
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> > > 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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Why claim to have read? Because I do not agree with everything he wrote?

His three-way hierarchy is a great literary tour de force but I doubt it has
much real correspondence with reality.

Interesting reading, though. Like Robert Graves: fascinating if flawed by a
pre-occupation with Great Mother ideas.


Patrick

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