From: shivkhokra
Message: 66754
Date: 2010-10-12
>No. I find it strange that you are considering Homer the "geographer's" Pylos as gospel, eventhough Crete existed 700 years prior to Homer, and the fact that many modern scholars reject misguided (nationalistic?)attempts to seek "history" in Homer.
> At 3:18:47 PM on Saturday, October 9, 2010, shivkhokra wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <bm.brian@> wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> > No. I have given two examples: matoropuro and rauratijo
> > puro
>
> And *again* you miss the point. If you cannot read any
> better than that, you're wasting everyone's time.