Re: 'dyeus'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "megalith6" <megalith6@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "megalith6" <megalith6@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Hans-Werner,
> >
> > Marduk leads nowhere accepted.
> >
> > With regard to PIE 'dyeus pater' what has happened to 'dyeus
> > mater' please? Juno does not appear to be the 'Earth Mother'. The
> > only gender correct form I have here for a dyeus counterpart is
> > 'Dione' [Juno], I don't know what her reconstructed PIE would be.
> > For that we need the neutral adjective 'bright', I haven't seen
> > that yet.
> >
> > For Dione also read Diana but the moon attribution is fraught
> > (below)
> >
> > Looks to me as if Juno's root is exactly the same as 'dyeus' - her
> > name 'Lucina' makes that abundantly clear I think.
>
> ..............
>
> Here we are, 'Theia', it was here all along, 'the shining light of
> the sky', exactly the reading so beloved of Indo-Europeanists for
> 'dyeus'. Men never did have a monopoly over the sky it seems, or
> light, or even the sun.
>
> Maybe time to update those lexicons.
>
> "THEIA was the Titan goddess of sight (thea) and shining light of
> the clear blue sky (aithre)"
>
> http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisTheia.html
>

You do realize that you are just complicating the matter?
The standard example of what not to do in linguistics given to aspiring linguists is the attempt to connect the *deyw- of Latin deus with the *dhew- of Greek theos. Your pointing out that the latter as well as the former besides the sense "god" also has the sense "day(light)" increases the evidence for both words being a single loan from some other language family.


Torsten