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Etruscan Demons, Monsters Unearthed
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| 11-5-2003
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 11/05/2003 8:18:48 AM PST by blam
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:18:48 AM PST
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blam
To: blam
Interesting development.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:21:21 AM PST
by
dodger
To: blam
few traces of their puzzling, non-Indo-European language survive Related to the Basques?
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:22:20 AM PST
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r9etb
To: blam; *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; Alas Babylon!; annyokie; bd476; BiffWondercat; Bilbo Baggins; billl; ..
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:22:53 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: blam
It would be nice if they turned up a long bilingual text, say Latin and Etruscan. Almost all we know of the Etruscan language is from short bilinguals of the form "A. Doofus erected this to his father lest he be thought lacking in filial piety."
That red-haired lady is obviously some guy's ugly wife with a big fat cat. In fact, the cat looks a lot like a character from a Cary Grant - Katherine Hepburn movie. No need to get supernatural here.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:24:55 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: blam
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:30:10 AM PST
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blam
To: blam
Looks like Helen Thomas to me.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:31:36 AM PST
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LanPB01
To: Romulus; blam
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:33:14 AM PST
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eastsider
To: r9etb
More likely the Minoans.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:41:29 AM PST
by
Junior
("Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons!")
To: eastsider
The Roman historians wrote about lots of others, even Lapplanders. The Wrote of Greek history and myths. Yet they did not preserve any Eutruscan heritage. Were they too familiar? Were they ashamed? Just seems strange to me.
To: shamusotoole; eastsider
The Roman historians wrote about lots of others, even Lapplanders.Lars Porsena was a Swede, wasn't he? ;-)
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:56:43 AM PST
by
Romulus
(Nothing really good ever happened after 1789.)
To: Junior
From the red hair I would guess they were celtic or related to them. I remember vaguely there was a group of Celts that invaded and fought the locals, I am not positive of the timing. They may have come later.
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posted on
11/05/2003 8:56:45 AM PST
by
Evil Inc
To: blam
Did someone say "Demon"?
To: shamusotoole; Romulus
The Wrote of Greek history and myths.
Arma virumque cano
To: Evil Inc
From the red hair I would guess they were celtic or related to them. I remember vaguely there was a group of Celts that invaded and fought the locals, I am not positive of the timing. They may have come later. There were Celts (Cisalpine Gauls) south of the Alps, but they weren't the Etruscans. The Celtic languages are Indoeuropean; Etruscan is an isolate.
To: blam
There was a whole history of interaction between peoples the world over in ancient times that we moderns are largely unaware of. Most people's Darwinistic view of man's development has clouded their vision of the human race's many rises and falls in world travel, interaction, sophistication, and technology.
I find it quite interesting that pretty much every other piece of Etruscan art I've ever seen depicted dark haired and often dark skinned people. This person, I would imagine was most definitely not of that origin. If he is, and yes I think it's a he and not a she, then he would probably have been a far more ancient Etruscan, living long before the Etruscans became a uniformly dark haired people.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. I am fascinated by this find. Thank you for posting it.
To: Junior
They were the off-scouring of Numenor, deceived by Sauron.
To: MarcoPolo
"There was a whole history of interaction between peoples the world over in ancient times that we moderns are largely unaware of. Most people's Darwinistic view of man's development has clouded their vision of the human race's many rises and falls in world travel, interaction, sophistication, and technology. That's my view also.
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11/05/2003 10:03:21 AM PST
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blam
To: VadeRetro
Not only was Lars (non Norgensis) Porcena an Etruscan King of Rome, supposedly I Clavdivs (and II Clavdivs and III Clavdivs and IV Clavdivs....) was of Eutruscan descent and wrote about their language. His book was last (perhaps buried in the Robert Graves.)
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posted on
11/05/2003 10:08:45 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: muleskinner
Sauron this, Sauron that - Sauron was jsut Melko(r)'s piss boy.
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11/05/2003 11:01:45 AM PST
by
SengirV
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