"kamra"-camera-chambre-chamber-room
one of things among others that informs some of Ashok Sukumaran's work. Ashok is a bombay based new media artist. http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~suku/01site/idmumbai.html
and on the linguistic connection there is of course Max Meuller... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller Thus the Indo-European father-god appears under various names: Zeus, Jupiter, Dyaus Pita. For Müller all these names can be traced to the word 'Dyaus', which he understands to imply 'shining' or 'radiance'. This leads to the terms 'deva', 'deus', 'theos' as generic terms for a god, and to the names 'Zeus' and 'Jupiter' (derived from deus-pater). On 1/11/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Long ago - on this list, and perhaps more than once I put up my now "ho hum" well known observations about similarities in Indo-European languages. For example: "danta"- dental "sarpa"-serpent "kamra"-camera-chambre-chamber-room But all these are well known. Recently I have been wondering if there are any less well known/acknowledged similarities in history and culture. There is a Cupid equivalent - Kama - who has a bow that acts pretty much like Cupids bow. Curiously Kama has another name - "Manmatha" who I think was a drop dead handsome hunk like Adonis. Let me get on to some more blasphemous stuff. The Ramayana and the Iliad are both long poems about a married woman who gets kidnapped and taken off to an island and requires rescue. Krishna in the Mahabharatha has a weak spot - his left heel - which is targeted to kill him. Achilles too had his weak spot in the heel. In all cases there is a Homer connection. Am I dreaming or am I the first person in the universe to see these links? If I am, remember - you heard it here first. shiv
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