Speaking of Heracles...are there any indications that he could possibly hold the striker role of the Greeks? The Club, the serpent slaying etc.....or is it...
In a message dated 6/4/2003 5:59:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... No, it isn't just you; I quite agree with this. Ceisiwr Serith [Non-text portions of this...
... Yes, Heracles certainly shows characteristics of a striker. Could anyone refer me to any works that lay out the chronology of ancient conceptions of...
In a message dated 5/25/2003 3:17:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... The images of Cernunnos show a large number of opposites -- tame/wild, life/death, and of...
... Gaulish ... tame/wild, ... Mercury, usually in ... and still ... psychopomp (lord of ... equated with ... find out ... about him, I ... Thanks for the...
In a message dated 6/6/2003 4:36:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I have some serious problems with this site. For instance, it says: "Cernunnos is nearly...
... find out ... about him, I ... I wasn't able to find much except for the following: Kurunta: Hittite God. Stands on a stag holding a hare and a falcon. A ...
... FYI - (for the benefit of anyone whom it benefits) "Feoh" is the Old English form, ancestor to current English "fee"; it comes from Germanic "Fehu", itself...
... Same here....this helps clear the picture up quite a bit for me. I have heard talk of Fionn MacCumhail being considered a stag deity as well. He definitely...
In a message dated 6/7/2003 12:26:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... The tales of Finn most definitely contain much that is Pagan in origin, and as the leader of...
Found this little article discussing Fionn as a stag/hunting God. Pretty interesting, I would however like to go over the sources myself and see what else ...
What about other mythological characters in PIE, like monsters? I was looking about the other day for information on mythological monsters and found a great...
In a message dated 6/6/2003 5:51:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Thanks. I wrote to Calvert Watkins about it a while back, but never received an answer. Oh...
Shamanic Ideologies And Techniques Among The Indo-Europeans by Mircea Eliade Like all other peoples, the Indo-Europeans had their magicians and ecstatics. As...
... I think you would have to add serpents/dragons and Giants in there as well. ... Thanks for posting that URL....interesting site. ... That's an interesting...
In a message dated 7/3/2003 2:54:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... By Thracians. Whether in Thrace or somewhere else is still open to question. I lean towards...
... to ... Cernunnos; he was ... would have to ... cauldron. The ... Celts who ... Ok Thanks for pointing that out. It had not crossed my mind before...I see...
From a question at b-net....is there any connection between the Irish Goddess Tailtiu and the Roman Goddess Tellus? For some reason I cannot get to the Pokorny...
I've looking in my books, and haven't seen anything to either suggest or to deny a connection. Hopefully someone else on this list has other resources that do...
Greetings.....on another forum I saw a link to "Our Troth Online" http://www.thetroth.org/resources/ourtroth/ The scholarship seems reasonably good...I admit I...
... [snips] ... Several thoughts: 1) I have no idea if it is still like that, but when it was started, the Troth maintained high (Western) academic standards,...
In a message dated 7/22/2003 2:28:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I haven't heard of this before, but it is an interesting idea. I am, however, usually...
In a message dated 7/22/2003 2:28:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... One more thing. Serpents in IE mythology either live in the water or under the ground, not...
... when the ... that the ... researchers ... water or ... the flying ... I lean towards the water explanation myself, representing the waters, like the...
... There is a reference to flying dragons in the Greek lore: Helios gives Medeia a chariot drawn by flying dragons. That's the only thing I could find ...
... That's true....I could not think of a single sky serpent until Belenios posted that ref an email back. The link I posted aboput tornados in western Asia...
... Like I said elsewhere, I don't really buy into this explanation myself but it is interesting...as far as Tornados go...we have had four warnings here in...
There's some mention of the Tailltean Games in Graves' "White Goddess": 136. Graves thinks that the games were named after what he calls an "agricultural...
In a message dated 7/24/2003 5:32:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... The politest thing that can be said about Graves' etymologies is that they are crap. He was...
... I didn't say that I necessarily agreed with Graves' opinions - I was merely reporting them. As you imply, his opinions have indeed been called into...
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