tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post3770880243782308153..comments2023-09-28T07:32:28.168-08:00Comments on Bill's Greek Mythology: TFBT: Ben's Curriculum, Part VIIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-10520086855968204512016-08-03T08:23:09.994-08:002016-08-03T08:23:09.994-08:00Maya,
I have always wondered if the whole Geryon s...Maya,<br />I have always wondered if the whole Geryon story was originally a non-Greek epic. Just a thought<br /><br />BillAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-40113761051015514542016-08-02T22:18:28.252-08:002016-08-02T22:18:28.252-08:00So the Vedic "Helios" also has a herd of...So the Vedic "Helios" also has a herd of nice cattle! But I bet the Indians have no reckless heroes who slay the sun-god's cows the moment they feel hungry.<br /><br />If the two Menoitii are identical, I guess the primary one was the Hades cowherd. It appears in a Heracles myth (an old, I'd say obsolete, layer of mythology). The name Menoites seems not fully understandable, maybe reflecting an older form of language. Homer borrows it as suitable for Patroclus' father and makes it fully understandable (Menoitius). Hesiod may have taken it and given it history to illustrate the might of Zeus, as he did with Atlas.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-37629357233744568212016-08-02T17:41:16.546-08:002016-08-02T17:41:16.546-08:00Maya,
Nice find on Yama. In Vedic tradition ther...Maya,<br /><br />Nice find on Yama. In Vedic tradition there is an image of the sun-god herding his cloud-cows across the sky to his night-pasture in the west<br /><br />I want to be lieve that Menoetius is Menoites, but Aaron Atsma is the only authority to support the idea<br /><br />BillAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-61355795221731798102016-08-02T14:37:45.830-08:002016-08-02T14:37:45.830-08:00"Menoetius... disappeared from myth about thi..."Menoetius... disappeared from myth about this time. "<br /><br />I think that Menoetius is identical with Menoites the cowherd of Hades. From Theoi.com:<br /><br />"...Menoites (Menoetes), who was there tending the cattle of Hades, reported these events to Geryon" (Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.108)<br /><br />And see what I found yesterday in Boyce's "History of Zoroastrianism":<br /><br />"The spirits of the dead travel to his [i.e. Vedic Yama's] realm by a downward path; but in RV [i.e. the Rig Veda] 10.14.2 this gloomy region is called gavyuti "cattle-pasture", an expression which has been connected with Yima's constant epithet of hvathwa "having good herds"... The ancient belief [was] that he [i.e. Yima] was lord of the underworld, where he welcomed the dead to "cattle pastures", the Elysian fields of Iran."Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.com