From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60805
Date: 2008-10-11
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From: kishore patnaik
" and your claim Varuna is not IE crashes on the groundwork of his theory."
> he tried to show that Varuna was existing in Scandanavian mythology. I
> think that was not accepted by any one at all.
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Mallory who wrote a couple of reference books describes his theories.
People with some credentials in the field (IE or Compared mythology) agree.
I could add Bernard Sergent.
Arnaud
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In fact, Piotr might have commented on this earlier in the thread.
He is particularly fond of Mitra and tried to show, if I am not wrong," that
" how, from Vedic India to Ireland from Caucasia to Rome, and from Iran to
Old Germany, the sovereign gods and heroes always appear in couples"
I don;t know how this was taken by the scholar world, but frankly it falls
flat on its nose - the pair concept belongs to later "old Vedics" - Varuna
appeared solo first, then he took up Mitra along him, as the Lord of Night
and slowly, this has changed to Varuna reigning darkness (see how he is
compared to Moon) and Mitra to Sun(in fact, one of the names of Sun has come
to be Mitra).
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No,
I think you completely fail to understand the _structural_ pattern of IE
gods and deities.
Your "hit and run" approach is absurd and can only lead to a conceptual
monster.
Arnaud
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