>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor#Name
Tyr/Ziu/Tue is even more interesting (related to the *deiuos &
daeuua family, but phonetically somwhat close to tengri, tangra
& Sumer. dingir too. :^))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyr
__Worth reading (inter alia Dumézil's theory):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indogermanische_Religion
__Tengrismus (IMHO a very good wiki-article):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengrismus
So, Tangra is sort of a "Himmelsvater" or "Vater im Himmel", but,
unfortunately, everything one knows about Tengrism is extremely
recent (millennia after those cosmogonies and pantheons of
PIE-language speaking cultures, such as Greek, Italic, Persian,
Indian etc.)...
>*tieÅ- vs. *dieÅ- is a comparison between Yeniseian(?) and some
>substrate to PIE.
According to Stefan Georg, Yeniseyan was a "Eurasian" idiom.
What does "Eurasian" mean when compared with neighboring
Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus et al.? Is it to be seen sort of a
"substrate" language if compared with the Turkic, Mongolian
and Ugric idioms of the relevant regions?
As for your hypothesis: do you imply that some deities are
"imported" from some "paleo-Siberian" "pantheon" into the
ancient religions (say, of Iran and India)?
(BTW, are chorea (khoreia, khoros) & chorus, choir as well as the
circle dances horo, hora also based on a "Wanderwort"?
The circle dance of shamans is called in Mongolian yohor.)
George