Re: 'dyeus' chronology

At 2:53:50 PM on Saturday, October 9, 2010, shivkhokra
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
> <frabrig@...> wrote:

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

>>> We should also think about why on Crete the palaces were
>>> called PUR on linear B tablets and not the greek term
>>> polis. Pur is what palaces are in Vedas.

>> If you are referring to the term "pu-ro", attested
>> repeatedly in Linear B tablets, that is considered a
>> place-name (Greek Pulos, i.e. Pylos), not a word for
>> 'palace'.

> No one doubts that Vedic Pur and Greek Polis are one and
> the same. Crete had palace names such as ma-to-ro puro,
> rauratijo puro etc. Compare such names to how palace
> founded cities are named in India: Udaipur, Jodhpur etc.

You appear to have completely missed Francesco's point,
which is that all of this is completely irrelevant to Linear
B <pu-ro> 'Pulos', which cannot have the same source.

>> As to "pur is what palaces are in the Vedas", this
>> statement of yours is simply ridiculous. In the Rigveda,
>> pur means only 'rampart, wall made of mud and stones,
>> fortification, palisade', and its supposed Indo-European
>> cognates, Greek polis and Lithuanian pilis, originally
>> meant only 'fortress, stronghold'. The reconstructed
>> Proto-Indo-European form is generally given as *plh1-
>> (which cannot have resulted in Greek <pulos>).

> See above.

You have not addressed either of Francesco's points.

Brian