The Archaian white races / by J.S. Stuart Glennie.

John Stuart Stuart-Glennie

Date:: [1887]

Credit: The Archaian white races / by J.S. Stuart Glennie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$able element in the many-rooted civilisations mainly due to the initiative of their kindred of the Southern Branch. 8. With respect to the Greek names of the three Brothers of the Chaldean tradition, I venture also to think that they were adopted by Berossos not merely on the principle, as M. Lenormant says, that each name ‘ pour les Grecs eveillat une notion conforme au role mythique du personnage,’ * but more probably, perhaps, because the learned Chaldean priest knew these Greek names to be but Graecised forms of the original Chaldean names. No other Chaldean equivalent of Kronos save Ea, when Kronos is the name of a god, has, so far as I am aware, been as yet suggested. But 'Kpovos has no meaning in Greek, and was only at a late period inter- preted as Xpovos.^ As for Titan, however, M. Lenormant himself admits that he is ‘ assez s^duit ’ ^ by the suggestion of Professor Sayce'* that Titan (Tirdv) may be the Graecised form of Etana, the hero of one of the Chaldean legends of which the British Museum possesses cuneiform fragments which were translated by George Smith.’^ And it is to be noted that, though the name of Titan does not occur in the usually quoted lists of the Tiravs^, yet in the list of Stephen of Byzantium ® we find Adanu^a name almost identical with Etana?^ As to the Greek name of the third Brother, which the author of the Sibylline Verses gives as lapetos (probably from having found this name, instead of Promethevs, in his copy of the XaXBaiKo, of Berossos), M. Lenormant points out that this name, and that of Yapedosth^ given by Moses of ’ Origines, t. ii. I P. p. 223. * M. Lenormant’s whole argumentation about the original name translated by Berossos as Kronos, and by Moses of Khor’ni as Zerovan, appears to me to be vitiated by his arguing as if KpSvos had been originally equivalent to XpSvos ; and as if Zerovan had not most probably been (as he himsejf points out that it probably was) introduced only about the time of the Sassanides, when Kpopos had already long got assimilated with XpSvos; and also by the postulate of the whole discussion, that * Cronos-Zerovan est manifestement, dans le mythe babylonien, le correspondant du Shem biblique ’ {Origines, t. ii. r* P. pp. 218-22, &c.}. ® Origines, t. ii. l” P. p. 229. ■* Chaldean Account of Genesis, pp. 143-7. Sub voce'PiZava?^ AX$

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