From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 57809
Date: 2008-04-21
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From: "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
To: "Cybalist" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:25 AM
Subject: [tied] mimz = Mímir , the Cutter?
I found in Google books an interesting reference about Mímir
http://books.google.com.br/books?id=o0N7Sjh7EvoC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=m%C3%ADmir+mimz+mime&source=web&ots=CkSSWB7u4I&sig=jrcZJ2PLigXeLljxmB6xI986sGE&hl=pt-BR
Mímir would mean "the Cutter".
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Patrick:
There is hardly no possibility that Mimir means 'cutter'.
He is the 'rememberer'.
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So, it let me thinking... Mímr the Cutter as a kind of first Carpenter, who
cut the Primordial Tree, who separated sky from earth; who killed the
Primordial Man and the Primordial Cow... (cf. Avesta)
Mímr meaning "cutter", cognate of *me:mso "meat, cut piece of flesh"
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Patrick:
This is altogether a different root.
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Kronos < *kr- "to cut" ? akin to Latin caro: "meat"
Tvastr < *twerk^- "to cut" akin to Greek sarx "meat"
Tvastr related to dragon Vrtra, enemy of Indra, Storm-God
Kronos related to she-dragon Kampe, enemy of Zeus, idem
Mímir related to Odinn, not a Storm-God, but having some of his traits.
I think it seems a nice bunch of common traits .
JS Lopes
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Patrick:
Small similarities do not constitute integral relationships.
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