Note 4 — LETTURA SECONDA. IL CIELO.
Reading edition
Uno de' suoi nomi è pure go (= gam, propriamente l'andante, la larga, la vasta), a proposito del quale gioverà allo studioso conoscere il seguente riscontro del Muir, Sanskrit Texts, V, pag. 33-34: «The word Prithivî, which in most parts of the Rig-Veda is used for Earth, has no connection with any Greek word of the same meaning. It seems however originally to have been merely an epithet, meaning broad; and may have supplanted the older word gau which (with gmâ and g'mâ) stands at the head of the earliest Indian vocabulary, the Nighantu, as one of the synonyms of Prithivî (earth) and which closely resembles the Greek Γαῐα or Γἤ. In this way, Gaur Mâtar may possibly have once corresponded to the Γἤ μήτηρ or Δημήτηρ of the Greeks.» Ma qui si deve ancora aggiungere come la vedica go è molto più spesso rappresentata in cielo che in terra.