From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60705
Date: 2008-10-09
> From: Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...>And Marduk? Assuming it is a Semitic name of Semitic origin --I'm guessing mV- "one who --" + R-D-K, so what's the R-D-K mean?
> Subject: [tied] Re: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 11:04 AM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
>
> <kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:
>
> > Varuna is purely Indic god, being conspicuous by his
> abence in
> > Iranian tradition. Of course, Bruce Lincoln in his
> book "Priests,
> > Warriors and Cattle" (Los Angeles, 1981)... tries
> to equate Varuna
> > with Ahura Mazda but that does not really gel.
>
> Not so fast, Kishore.
>
> You seem to be unaware that the equation Indic Varuna =
> Iranian
> Ahura Mazda was first proposed by Hermann Oldenberg more
> than a
> century ago:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4zewyw
>
> Later on, Oldenberg's thesis gained the support of some
> great
> historians of religion like Georges Dumézil and Mircea
> Eliade (and
> many others!):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4zgq7u
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4uulmq
>
> Bruce Lincoln is but one of many scholars who have
> discussed this
> thesis after Oldenberg. Other scholars, as is often the
> case in
> scholarly debates, have rejected it; among them I may cite
> Ananda K.
> Coomaraswamy, who thought Varuna to be an autochthonous
> South Asian
> deity connected with non-Aryan serpent cults.
>
> With this I don't mean to say that Oldenberg's
> thesis is correct. I
> just mean to stress you cannot simply brush this
> long-debated thesis
> aside as an aborted idea of Bruce Lincoln's, which is
> what your post
> in fact suggests.
>
> Regards,
> Francesco