Talk:Thracian mythology

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According to Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Zemelô is a Phrygian term taken from a Phrygian inscription:

de diôs Zemelô

me Zemelô ke deos

deos ke Zem(elô)

me Zemelô.

Harrison agrees it is a Phrygian form of Semele, but it is not attested as Thracian, AFAIK. Alexander 007 19:14, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Seltman claims that Dionysus was a Thracian god, appealing to his mother, Semele, "a name almost certainly taken from Thraco-Phrygian religion, because in the language of that region the word ‘Zemelo’ meant Earth. In fact, she was an earth-goddess whose cult must have come to Bœotian Thebes with that of her son, and there been built into local legend."

But of course he probably assumed that the Thracians were kinned with the Phrygians. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 19:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kotys and Cottyto

Are they the same goddess ? If so, we have duplicate articles bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 19:31, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm 99% certain those are variant theonyms for the same Thracian goddess, though I don't have a quote available that specifically says so. Alexander 007 19:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Everything2.com: Cotys. And this link has some more info, too. bogdan ʤjuʃkə | ^Talk 19:37, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Then we do have duplicate articles. Alexander 007 19:49, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Actually, a triplicate article. See: Cottytus. Alexander 007 21:51, 15 July 2005 (UTC)