Founding Deities as Cultural Memory

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The Three-Possibilities Framework: borrowing, coincidence, or common source.

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Strong O C The Three-Possibilities Framework Strong O C Cognate Defined -- Yama and Ymir Strong O E Three Brothers from East of Odesa

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Mar 31, 2026
Cognate Defined -- Yama and Ymir
'Cognate' means that a sound, word and/or its meaning has the same root; that, say, Yama and Ymir, which correspond phonologically (they sound alik...
Mar 31, 2026
The Three-Possibilities Framework
We know this now because of what I said before, which is that when we come across these similar sounds and meanings for the founders, say, of mytho...
Mar 31, 2026
Three Brothers from East of Odesa
So you could maybe think of three brothers in the area just east of Odesa, and one goes on to found the Italic branch of the Indo-European language...

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