Re: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 60784
Date: 2008-10-11

Kishore,
 
it is my belief that Varuna is tied to the planet Venus, which originally was connected with rivers, lakes, and seas; dawn and (re)birth.
 
Jupiter is the planet which is part of the core constituent elements of the weather-god. Coukd conceivably be Indra.
 
The archives have a long and interesting discussion of these theonyms.

Without wanting to be Clintonesque, "supreme" should, I think, be understood in tw basic ways: 'very important' (Varuna) and 'regnant' (Indra).
 
 
Patrick


To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
From: kishorepatnaik09@...
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:03:06 +0000
Subject: [tied] Re: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?


--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@ ...>
wrote:
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> The commonest pattern is that the storm/weather- god becomes the
supreme god.
>
>
> Patrick
>

Not always. Varuna was the supreme God in Indian pantheon, before
Indra was. Yet Varuna had nothing to do with storm and weather. Of
course, You must have made the comment, if at all you had India in
mind, about Indra.

Kishore patnaik