From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 66757
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.Everything relevant known as Pylos is on the Peloponnese, not on Crete. (I'm having problems quantifying how vague the name is.) The name was associated with the area before Linear B could be read.
> At the same time you have no words of admonishment for McAllister and Brighenti when they say that Vedic Saraswati is not the same Saraswati that is now a dry river bed even though Rg Veda list rivers *in order* starting from Ganga and travelling west and each of these rivers is still at exactly the same spot as given in the verse.The problem is that Sarasvati has a certain popularity as a river name.