Re: Herakles, Rudra and the centaurs: PIE source?

From: shivkhokra
Message: 66700
Date: 2010-10-08

What I find interesting is that if we look at RV 1:127:2
"párijmaanam iva dyaáM", parijmaanam is an ephitet for Dyaus and Amphitryon (Amphi: round; tru: turn) could be a minor name for Zeus both perhaps meaning moving around in the heavens.



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> Rudra followed the stellar deer (i.e. Prajapati, who in the guise of a deer
> followed his daughter, but Shiva cut off his head which became the
> constellation called Mrigashira i.e. the deer-head). There's variations of this
> legend with Brahma replacing Prajapati, and this can be trace back to Varuna or
> Dyaus. The father tried to violate his own daughter, the goddess Samdhya
> "Twilight", who fled changed into a doe.
>
> There are many parallels to moments of Herakles' career, specially linked to
> centaurs:
>
> 1. The centaur Nessos tried to violate his wife Dejaneira and was killed by the
> heroic archer.
> 2. Kheiron was son of horse-disguised Kronos and Philyra. Kheiron was killed
> accidentally by the poison of Herakles' arrows. Kheiron became a constellation.
> 3. Herakles hunted the gold-antlered Ceryneian hind.
> 4. Herakles became killed by the poisoned cloth that Nessos gave to his wife.
>
> Should all these myths be reflex of a PIE source of myths about Varuna as
> violator and being castrated or shot by magic arrows? Or the Allfather *Dyeus ?
>
> 5. Can we add to this list the myth of Apollon and Python? Artemis and Orion?
> Artemis and Aktaion? Could Kheiron be a ambrosia-keeper as the Persian Gandar&ba
> ?
>
> JS Lopes
>