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Earthstepper E
Earthstepper Aug 11, 2004 15:50:35
Replying to Wyrd Brother

I'm staying out of this one 'cos it drives you mad. Its really all about archetypes and the origins of language. While you are considering Lugh, Lug and Lud don't forget Lucifer - the bringer of light turned into Satan. Matches as sources of light were known as lucifers until recently . So it goes on.

Nicolai Tolstoi has a lot to say about the similariites between Lugh, Odin, Christ and Merlin in his book on Merlin - virgin births, triple deaths, sacrificed on trees and so on. Me? I'm still hung up on the shamanic, drum beating, teaching South American Wotan.

T TomBo
TomBo Aug 11, 2004 16:12:20
Replying to Earthstepper

"I'm staying out of this one 'cos it drives you mad."

Know the feeling! ;) The Voynich manuscript is worse for that, though.

"Me? I'm still hung up on the shamanic, drum beating, teaching South American Wotan."

Yes, what you said there a while back sticks in my mind, too. It's intriguing, but again, likely to drive you mad! Here's some food for thought, though, a suggestion that the "new" world was known in the "old" world even before the Vikings (and of course there's always the Piri Re'is map, if you really want your head done in!).

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/117_toke.shtm
(thanks to the person who sent me this link, btw - you know who you are)