Re: 'dyeus' chronology

From: shivkhokra
Message: 66703
Date: 2010-10-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> ________________________________
> From: shivkhokra <shivkhokra@...>
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 4:01:48 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: 'dyeus' chronology
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
> >> shivkhokra wrote:
> >
> >> I am saying that if dyaus is mentioned for the first time on the planet earth
> >> in 2000 BC in Rg Veda and then 800 years later in 1200 B.C he is mentioned
> >> again as Zeus with similar functions on Linear B tablets in Crete,
> >> many thousand miles away, why is it necessary to assume that Greeks
> >> and Rg Vedic people had a common ancestor? Does'nt Occam's razor apply?
> >
> > We already need a common (linguistic) ancestor for Greek and Sanskrit. Occam's
> > razor says we shouldn't multiply entities *without reason*.
>
> Can you please explain what you mean?
>
> >
> > We do have an alternative connection - Mitanni Aryans.
>
> But were'nt Mitanni aryans from India? The names of Gods that appear in RV
> 10.125.1 are present in the Mitanni treaty of 1380 BCE in the exact same order:
>
> ***R No they were not. They were from present day Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Before
> that, their ancestors lived in Central Asia, as did the ancestors of the Indian
> Aryans and the ancestors of the Crimean Aryans.
> ****


And your evidence is?

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