Res: [tied] Re: Contact between Indo-Aryans and Semites in India

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 66211
Date: 2010-06-19

I suspect a relation between Tiamat and Greek Te:thys, with -m- > -v- > -F-, although the role of Tiamat in Sumerian theogony was played by Gaia as Mother Goddess and Mother of Monsters, and maybe sea-goddess Ke:to:. Sumerian Ea seems to be one of the sources of Greek Prometheus (mixed to elements of PIE fire-god, heavenly messenger and trickster), as the manhood-friendly wise god rival to a rageous Storm-god Zeus.


JS Lopes

De: Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Sábado, 19 de Junho de 2010 4:25:41
Assunto: [tied] Re: Contact between Indo-Aryans and Semites in India

 



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> How did Mesopotamian myths reach India? How if Babylonian and
> Indian parallels reflect a common substratal Pre-Aryan = Pre-
> Semitic?

*IF* an echo or resonance of the Tiamat myth ever reached India (which is something I still doubt), it might have been carried there via direct or indirect sea trade with Mesopotamia. Some scholars have hypothesized that the trade connections linking the India-Pakistan coastal tracts on the Arabian Sea with the Gulf and Mesopotamia, established during the Mature Harappan period, continued well into the late second millennium BCE (by which time the Atharvavedic hymns started being composed). Anyway, all such hypotheses rest on very meager archaeological and literary evidence.

Regards,
Francesco