Re: 'dyeus' chronology

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

> ________________________________
> From: shivkhokra <shivkhokra@...>
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 3:42:42 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: 'dyeus' chronology
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,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?
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately the Rg Veda was not written in 2000 BCE but sometime
> > around 500 CE because Sanskrit was not written until c. 400 CE. So
> > your argument is pointless.
>
> I am presenting some internal evidence from Vedic corpus.
>
> RV 6.61.2:
> iyáM shúSmebhir bisakhaá ivaarujat saánu giriiNaáM taviSébhir uurmíbhiH
>
> paaraavataghniím ávase suvRktíbhiH sárasvatiim aá vivaasema dhiitíbhiH
>
> She with her might, like one who digs for lotus-stems, hath burst with her
> strong waves the ridges of the hills.
> Let us invite with songs and holy hymns for help Sarasvati who slayeth the
> Paravatas.
>
> Panchvimsa Brahamana 25.10.16:
> "At a distance of a journey of forty days on horseback from the spot where the
> Saraswati is lost in the sands of the desert is situated Plaska Prasarvana".
>
> Vedic corpus remembers both a mighty Saraswati and a dried up Saraswati.
>
> Modern hydro geologists tell us that Saraswati dried up before 1900 B.C.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Shivraj


> Rick McAllister wrote:
> Maybe it's not the same river
>

Conjecture or do you have some data for your hypothesis?

-Shivraj