Minos and the Mycenaeans (Greece)

Long before I identified that what binds all of these deities together is the M-N- sound, Adalbert Kuhn in 1855 had an intuition that Minos (whom we first hear about in Homer around 700 BCE) and Manu (whom we first know of from the 1,200 BCE Rg Veda) were cognate.

Source: MN Sound · Founding Deities

The Greek manifestation: Minos of Crete and the Mycenaeans (whose very name carries M-N). Homer’s Menelaus (Men = moon) is associated with lunar deity traditions. Minerva carries M-N into the divine realm. Kuhn’s 1855 intuition anticipated Finding Manuland by 170 years — but he tried to derive one from the other linguistically, rather than recognising both as emanating from a common Ancient Ukrainian source.

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