From: kishore patnaik
Message: 56770
Date: 2008-04-05
You can easily find that on Pokorny or Bartleby.
Ho:ra is from y_r "time, season"
English year
Greek *yo:ra: > Ho:ra:
Arnaud
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You have a forced etymology, dear. Not everything that is told by waddlers of modern social sciences is true. they obtained the etymology based on the available resources.
Now, the hora has more connection with hour than with year (or your season). The most ancient thing that is known to the westerners is the division of day light into 12 parts (called hora) by greeks. perhaps, it is not until much later that the division of night also into 12 parts has been found.
On the other hand, Babylonians did have a hora system but it has nothing to do with hour. It is division of entire day(both day and night) into 12 parts.
That Indian system is more advanced and let us say, independent than these is attested by two facts:
1. In nothing of these systems, the hora system could give rise to the week system as presented by me.
2. In nothing of these systems, the etymology of the hora from day and night could be obtained. the Indian etymology is more natural and probable.
I wrote "I think" in order to be polite.
The seven-item system is well-known to be Mesopotamian.
Cf. the seven skys, the seven colors of the rainbow.
The sixty-item system is also well attested.
Arnaud
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psst... any number can be attached to something in the nature and mythology . if the week were to be having only two days , it means sun and moon, (man and wife, union of positive and negative so on), if it is three, omy gosh, would you say, god, man and holy ghost !
if the week days are connected to the seven colors of the rainbow, i can not see why they are named after the planets. And if nine planets are known to the greeks or sumerians or whoever else invented weekdays, then why on earth there are only 7 week days?
I dont think you have gone into the etymology of week and vara- they are diametrically opposite- week is succession whereas vara stands for a gateway, mostly restrictive one.
The vara has started in Indian system on a negative note- prohibiting certain works on certain days of the week This is for a quick guidance to common man who has no knowledge of the finer aspects of panchang. All this is very funnily absent in the western system of week.
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I'm afraid you are about as insane as the people
who try to calculate the dimensions of the Universe
starting with the geometry of Kheops pyramid.Get yourself a doctor.Insane reasoning amounts to a symptom not a proof.
You can not distinguish between the impeccable liturgical astro proof and the crazy derivations of semi cracks.
The former proofs are existing as they are since they were written. No new interpretations are extracted. whatever is written it is presented to us. On the other hand, the latter cases want to desperately derive what they want to see in the first place.
For eg., see the latest ANE group, some one wrote about a plate giving the sky charts of 3100 bce. the plate itself belongs to 400 AD at best! these are forced derivations, to say the least.
I cant repeat the same damned sentence that I ignore bullshit.
Kishore patnaik