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In a message dated 99-10-27 11:17:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In the Germanic languages, the moon is male (cf MHG 'der Mond') and the sun
>is female ('die Sonne'); I believe this is echoed in a number of other IE
>language groups. Determining to what extent the dichotomy reflects religious
>doctrine/practice is extremely difficult, particularly when, as with the
>German and their cousins the Norse, the myths were only collected and
>recorded well after the conversion to Christianity and are thus in many
>cases closer in spirit to "fairy tales" than to true myths. But see Jaan
>Puhvel, *Comparative Mythology*, and J.P. Mallory, *In Search of the
>Indo-Europeans*; see also Mircea Eliade, *A History of Religious Thought*,
>vol. 1.
The same in Latvian, my father's native language, and I seem to recall that
the Letts --if not the oldest, the SECOND oldest group of Indo-Europeans to
survive culturally intact into the Middle Ages-- honored a moon god and a sun
goddess. If I have enough time off the job to consult my hefty Sanskrit
dictionary (which includes etymologies), I'll report what the respective
genders of sun and moon are in that ancient IE language.
All to show that, at least ORIGINALLY, both Near Eastern and I-E cultures
shared a tendency to reverse modern sex-roles, in terms of the gender of
planetary deities.
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