Thanks Francine
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From: "Francine Nicholson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: Votian Water Veneration
> > From: JOHN DAVIES [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >
> > Sorry to be so thick but please could you explain why this jogs us out
of
> > our IE mindset?
> >
> Occasionally it seems that we tend to approach the subject of water
> veneration from an Indo-European--or perhaps I should say, Western
> European--perspective. What struck me about this essay is that the
practices
> are so very similar to those I've been collecting from Ireland, but the
> Votes are a Baltic-Finn people, not an I-E group. In this respect, the
> article reinforces the universality of water veneration, right down to the
> use of cloths and tossing heads into the water.
>
> Francine
>
>
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