To Ashok Kumar, in reference to post 21:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the term "Arya" was in common usage amidst persians<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes. The Greeks called the Persians <i>Arians</i> (possibly a phonetic transliteration into English), probably after the manner in which the Persian royalty referred to themselves.
Diodorus of Sicily, 1st century bc wrote the following about the Zoroastrian Iranians and their teacher:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus it is recorded that among the Arians Zathraustes claimed that the Good Spirit gave him his laws<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To Sushmita, in reference to post 10:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Liber Pater" is suggestive if it means Deliverer-Father, i.e. Manu who as per tradition saved humanity from the great flood. Not knowledgeable about Latin though.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <i>Liber Pater</i> is the reverential title given to the Roman solar God Apollo. (Apollo, though a solar deity was <i>not</i> the Sun God, that was Helios).
It is very possible that they identified Apollo with one of our own Gods, heroes or kings. The Greeks and Romans saw their Gods reflected in other peoples'. There's the ancient pluralism for you, trying to identify the elements people had in common.
Father Liberator as Manu is interesting. Is there any other Indian character of that period in time that could be considered equivalent to Apollo?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the term "Arya" was in common usage amidst persians<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes. The Greeks called the Persians <i>Arians</i> (possibly a phonetic transliteration into English), probably after the manner in which the Persian royalty referred to themselves.
Diodorus of Sicily, 1st century bc wrote the following about the Zoroastrian Iranians and their teacher:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus it is recorded that among the Arians Zathraustes claimed that the Good Spirit gave him his laws<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To Sushmita, in reference to post 10:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Liber Pater" is suggestive if it means Deliverer-Father, i.e. Manu who as per tradition saved humanity from the great flood. Not knowledgeable about Latin though.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <i>Liber Pater</i> is the reverential title given to the Roman solar God Apollo. (Apollo, though a solar deity was <i>not</i> the Sun God, that was Helios).
It is very possible that they identified Apollo with one of our own Gods, heroes or kings. The Greeks and Romans saw their Gods reflected in other peoples'. There's the ancient pluralism for you, trying to identify the elements people had in common.
Father Liberator as Manu is interesting. Is there any other Indian character of that period in time that could be considered equivalent to Apollo?