Re: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Very few other names of
> gods can aspire to the same status on comparatve grounds;
> *h2auso:s/*h2uses- 'Dawn' (Ushas/Eos/Aurora), perhaps.

This was PIE *xauswo:s with dissim. of u-w > u-0 in most (not Greek
*auswo:s > *a:uso:s).

> There's no
> evidence for a comparable age of Varuna. The only possible external
> cognate is Greek Ouranos, but the equation is shaky and many linguists
> and philologists reject it.

Both *eurus and *urus 'broad, wide' existed. The wide sky was
called *euru-nos with metathesis in Indic. For *euru-nos, Greek
changed u > ou in some cases (compare Skt urvara:-, G aroura 'field'
and *wedn/udn()- '(wet?) soil' > Arm getin, G edaphos, oudas) and
dissimilated u-u > u-a by r (similar to L *ururo- > *aruro- > *aruo- >
arvum and so on).

The existence of both Varun.a = Ouranos and urvara: = aroura makes
the connection almost beyond doubt, especially since the existence of
Urwana- implies metathesis in at least one word.

> > want to place RV after Mitanni inscriptions,.which talk about Varuna.