, page 409, wrote: "Yama, the regent of hell, has two
dogs, according to the Pur[=a]nas; one of them named Cerbura, or varied;
the other Syama, or black." He then compares Cerbura with Kerberos, of
course. The form Cerbura he obtained from his consulting Pandit, who
explained the name Cabala by the Sanskrit word _karbura_ "variegated," a
regular gloss of the Hindu scholiasts.
About fifty years later a number of distinguished scholars of the past
generation, Max Mueller, Albrecht Weber, and Theodor Benfey, compared the
word Cabala with Greek [Greek: Kerberos] (rarely [Greek: Kerbelos]),
but, since then, this identification has been assailed in numerous
quarters with some degree of heat, because it suffers from a slight
phonetic difficulty. One need but remember the swift changes which the
name of Apollo passes through in the mouths of the Greeks--[Greek:
Apollon], [Greek: Apellon], [Greek: Appellon], [Greek: Apeilon], [Greek:
Aploun][19]--to realize that it is useless to demand strict phonetic
conservation of mythic proper names.
Pages:
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42