21.2593, FYI: New Soqotri Text in Semitic Linguistics Archive

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Subject: 21.2593, FYI: New Soqotri Text in Semitic Linguistics Archive

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Date: 12-Jun-2010
From: Vladimir Agafonov < soqotra at yandex.ru >
Subject: New Soqotri Text in Semitic Linguistics Archive
 

	
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:50:19
From: Vladimir Agafonov [soqotra at yandex.ru]
Subject: New Soqotri Text in Semitic Linguistics Archive

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California Linguistic Notes has published another Soqotri original text in
North-Western Soqotri dialect - a Tale of Two Brothers (the first beginning part
of the Soqotran tale) which is very close to the Ancient Egyptian 'Tale of Two
Brothers' from the d'Orbiney papirus.

Unlike the first part of the tale, very close to the well-known ancient
Egyptian tale of Two Brothers from the Papirus d'Orbiney , the second part
is a combination of several folk stories not related to the plot of the
second part of the story of the ancient Egyptian text. At the same time, in
the published Soqotri text  some connection to ancient Canaan and his cults
are traced, in particular with the cult of Moloch demanding newborn babies
sacrificing.

English word-for-word and literary translations and comments are available
at the SemArch website of Heidelberg University. 
(http://www.semarch.uni-hd.de/index.php4?lang=en) 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Translation





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