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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if the Indian pair Surya (sun-god) and Surya: (sun's daughter)
> represents a synchretic way to include two different conceptions (SUn god and
> goddess) or Surya: was simply another PIE deity.
> Was PIE Sun male or female?
Many Indo-European deities have both male and female forms. See
pierce.yolasite.com/pantheon
(or <A Href="
http://pierce.yolasite.com/pantheon"> PIE Pantheon</A>,
whichever link works) for a brief discussion of this. The
assumption that PIE deities (and here I specifically mean Proto-
Indo-European deities) had to be either male or female is a product
of modern sexism. Individual Indo-European deities might be either
male or female, and in some cases the people who worship them admit
they don't know which.
Slag310