The great scholar, Sergei Anantolyevich Starostin, the head of Moscow school of historical linguistics, died on September, 30th in the Russian State University...
Dear List, Bob Butcher has alerted me to a new book just published by Blackwell that will be of interest to many researchers on the List: Miriam T. Stark, ed.,...
... that > need to be addressed in this field to put together a systematic survey. Dear Steve (and List), I think I can start contributing to this long-awaited...
Francesco Brighenti writes: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/1885 ... These are important topics, Francesco, and it will be...
... I apologize, Sunthar, for not having mentioned in my previous Indo- Eurasia post the very interesting discussion on buffalo sacrifices in Asia which took...
Dear Francesco, Is it surprizing that it is Visnu in his boar avatara that recsues the earth goddess? And what about the very virile, wonderful, sculptural...
... a ... He also worked a great deal on the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary site, a wonderful resource, available here: http://www.indo-european.nl Best...
Dear List, Sreenivas Paruchuri has forwarded this message to the List (on Petr Eltsov's doctoral thesis on early S. Asian cities). Petr also gave an overview...
Since we seem to be in a valley between major systematic discussions, let me jump back a month. Several people pointed out that the span of colors denoted by...
... Dear Alan, The claim that red, yellow, and blue are "primary colors" as I understand it is apparently arbitrary. These specific colors aren't critical to...
Dear Allen, Sorry for drowsily making you "Alan". ("Alan" is my middle name!) Also, one study I refer to in the post is by "Bartels and Zeki", not "Bartel and...
... the > earth goddess? And what about the very virile, wonderful, sculptural relief > from Udayagiri (MP). The goddess has some thing to do with the same...
Francesco, I can't speak for S and SE Asia but in West Asia the sow is NOT a primordial, matriarchal, widely-worshipped image before the Neolithic period....
Dear Trudi, ... Neolithic > period. Did I write that was *before* the Neolithic period? I didn't, nor does Gimbutas. ... evidence of subsequent excavations....
Dear Francesco, Indeed! I totally agree that the male Varaha does not have anything to do with the Varahi who is part of the saptamatrika tradition as well as...
The female boar imagery has made its way into the Tibetan [Buddhist] tantric pantheon as well. Dorje Phagmo (aka Vajravarahi), a particularly powerful female...
... [Buddhist] > tantric pantheon as well. Dorje Phagmo (aka Vajravarahi), a > particularly powerful female figure, has a pig/wild boar head appended to her...
... will be > looking up the reference but if you recall just off the cuff? I was > wondering at this episode and maybe it smacks of some sort of cultic...
________________________________ From: Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Francesco Brighenti ...
... I take it that the last word in your sentence is a slip, Trudy -- since in more than one of her manifestations (she of course had many) the Sumerian Inana...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1585836,00.html Parsi tradition dying out for lack of vultures Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi Thursday October 6,...
Considering that the British Museum has mounted a show on classical Persia now going on, although I did not see the article this letter to the editor is taking...
Steve, Thank you for your elucidations. My reference to fertility was to the procreation of human offspring. Ishtar is the erotic impulse, not the result of...
Pigs were thought to be domesticated in China by 7000 BC(?). Archeologists have found the remains of a domesticated pig in Turkey, which has been established...
... Providing further backing for your view is the fact that Inana/Ishtar (except in rare myths involving Shara) is not said to have children! Interestingly,...
Allen Thrasher once mentioned Srivaishnava teaching about Vishnu being dark/blue gold. In several places, Alwar poets (6-9th century) in the Tamil 4000...
There are only a few temples dedicated to Brahma in all of India. One is in Pushkar, North India. http://sacredsites.com/asia/india/pushkar.html The other...
