Re: Re: Alda-Chur and Yelmalio

From: Guy Hoyle <ghoyle1_at_...>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 13:51:20 -0500


Joshua Neff wrote:

> --- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams"
> <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
> > LC:
> > > I can't recall the name for that now, but you would see it in the
> > > ancient world where someone would identify some new god as actually
> > > just another name for some god they already know, etc. etc.
> >
> > Is "cognate" the word you're after?
>
> Thou shalt not worship false cognates?

I think he actually means syncretism, which is "Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous." The Germanic Wodan was identified with the Roman Mercury, Donar with Zeus, etc.

Guy (Hoyle)

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