Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Oct 2, 8:56 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I understand it fine, it's just that as usual I don't see why you think
random imaginings constitute evidence for what actually happened, and
all I see is a lot of retrofitting of one ad hoc explanation on top of
another for a theory that has many, many more holes than it fills.

Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism are well known
principles of early cosmology. Bear skulls placed in
caves represented the firmament (Marie E.P. König).
The world is in our head, and if the skull is the sky,
the eyes can be compared with sun and moon.
Look toward south and the visual field of the left eye
will cover the area of the rising sun until past midday,
and the right eye the descending sun from before
midday, so one eye is linked to the rising sun,
the other to the descending sun. Now a contributor
to the Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference
claims that the Greeks used four different words
for the sun depending on its position in the sky,
while we are simply speaking of the sun (ever
the same fire ball for us), and the ancient ones
spoke of the Orient (from oriiri, to rise) and the
Occident (from ob cadere, to fall down), while
we simply speak of the horizon. When the body
and especially the skull was seen as a model
of the cosmos, and when the eyes were linked
to the celestial bodies, and when the ancient
ones used many words where we are doing
with just one word, why should they not also
have used different words for the left eye and
for the right eye?

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