Re: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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>> He _might_ be present in Iranian and Greek. If he is present _just_ in
>> Indic, he's a local god, not present in the distant common ancestor of
>> Indic and the rest of IE.
>

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M. Gasiorowski,

There is no reason to say that Varuna is a local god because this word is
attested only in Indian.

As I wrote before, this is just the particular nickname given to a
deity/concept that can be found elsewhere under other nicknames.

Both you and M. Patnaik are confusing a word and its semantic content.

Arnaud