From: tgpedersen
Message: 64949
Date: 2009-08-25
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> De: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Enviadas: Terça-feira, 25 de Agosto de 2009 10:10:08
> Assunto: [tied] Senmurv
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> R. Brzezinski & M. Mielczarek
> The Sarmatians
> 600 BC - AD 450
> p. 39
> 'Some Sarmatian standard heads may have represented the legendary Iranian senmurv - half-wolf, half-bird (Coulston, 1991).'
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> http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/27139
> http://sejren. natmus.dk/ ST/genstande. asp?ID=49& offset=3
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> Torsten
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> What would be the origin of sinmurv (Avest. saena m&r&Go:)? A
> reflex of the Mesopotamian dog-headed, winged demons? A close
> relative of giant bird Garuda? A distant link to Norse eagle-winged
> giant Hraesvelgr ("corpse-swallower")?
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> Avestan saena m&r&Go: = Sansk. s^yena mR.ga; s^yena/saena <
> *k^yeino- "dark-coloured bird of prey" (cf. Greek iktinos "kite"
> <*t-kyi:no- ?)
> m&r&rGo:/mR.ga < *mRg(W)o- (akin to Greek mermnos? "kind of bird of
> prey")
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> Would it be a kind of PIE mythical giant bird.
>
> JS Lopes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senmurv
Torsten