Re: Semele - k^em- 'the hornless'

alexandru_mg3 schrieb:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
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> > secondly, Zamolxis was not one and the same with Gebleizis, even
> > in wiki you can find some kind of informations. I see also that the
> > paralelism zemele/gebele has been already mentioned by Kretschmer
> > too.(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebeleizis
> <http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebeleizis>)
> > Unfortunately the english version of wiki here is too short and does not
> > mention this aspect.
> > Alex
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> I don't have any proud to be right or wrong here...
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> All I did is that I took the original quotation and only next the
> interpreters:
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> The SINGLE SOURCE here is Herodotus:

yes, IV. 94

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> 94. As to their claim to be immortal, this is how they show it:
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> believe that they do not die, but that he who perishes goes
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> TO THE GOD SALMOXIS OR GEBELEXIS, AS SOME OF THEM CALL HIM.
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in the 3 manuscripts the name is not really good to read,
Thomaschek measn it is wroten ///beleizin and maybe there has been
Sebel-eizin or Zibeleizin where Sibel/Zibel should be "thunderbolt"

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> S Herodotus clearly tell us abut one and the same GOD having 2 different
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> (in my opinion is also the same name with only dialectic differences)
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> Marius

I have pretty doubghts to consider dialectal differences such big
differences : Zalmoxis-?ebeleizis... which is the reason you think these
are one and the same name? To me it appears to be two difterent name,
too much of vocalic differences here, letting by side the rest..


Alex