From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61668
Date: 2008-11-16
> From: Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>Giants in various cultures were often identified with natural phenomena in myth --e.g. Mayan Kabrakan is the giant asleep under the earth, earthquakes occur when he rolls over in his sleep. Others were volcanoes --e.g. the Cyclops, whose "one eye" or "circle eye" was interpreted by some (including the Mexican poet/philospoher Octavio Paz) as the "ojo del culo" or "anal eye" that splattered the earth with lava
> Subject: Res: Res: [tied] The -SG- in Greek (PELASGOS)
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 4:30 PM
> Giants were called ge:gene:s "earth-born"; they
> were born from Gaia...
>
> JS Lopes
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joao S. Lopes
>
> Yes, *khtongne:tos would be the Greek form, but I'm
> sugesting that Gigant-
> came from a IE Pre-Greek language. It's IE, but not
> Proto-Greek. Ge: and
> Da:, both meaning "earth", point to a *dHg^hm-
> root, giving first *dga:,
> and further with two divergent developments: *dga: >
> *ga: (ge:) and *gda: >
> da:. Since *g^H > *g, this can't be regular Greek,
> but a IE substratum or
> adstratum, akin to Illyric, Albanian, Thracian, Armenian,
> or anymore else..
>
> JS Lopes
>
> ============ ==
>
> What is the mythological basis to assume
> "gigants" have any connection with
> the Earth ?
>
> Is there any reason to assume that hypothesis ?
>
> A.
>