From: Harald Smith 617 726-2172 (SMITHH@A1.MGH.HARVARD.EDU)
Date: Fri 03 Jun 1994 - 05:52:00 EEST
Joerg (x-rq-id 4321)
Thanks for the comment on the Imther piece. I apologize about the margins. The word processing package that I use for all my email comes with a 1" margin built into the left edge. I have tried to adjust it for this post-- hope it works.
> Converting heathens
I suspect, though could well be wrong since I haven't read anything on the Balkan peninsula in the early Christian period for quite awhile, that aspects of the 3-in-1 goddess would still have been present there amongst the populace. It had already gone through earlier transformations with the Dorian conquest of Greece, but I think these aspects carry through more than might be suspected. I also think that there was still a Celtic influence in Gaul in this period which would have had the 3-in-1 goddess under a Roman guise. Both these areas were certainly within the bounds of the Roman Empire.
Paul Reilly (x-rq-id 4328)
> Gods of movement
Your point about all of them being crippled in some fashion following the pattern of Larnste sounds correct, though I could picture certain areas with what they think are exceptions. If an area viewed the Sun or Lightfore as their god of movement, then the mythos would probably not be that they were crippled, but that they were bound.
--Harald Smith
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