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Talos was a Greek automaton (having images dated to 400 BCE) whose creator, Hephaestus, has a name that may be traceable to the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁n̥gʷ
by thangalin 3y ago
Talos was a Greek automaton (having images dated to 400 BCE) whose creator, Hephaestus, has a name that may be traceable to the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁n̥gʷnís meaning an animate fire, which goes back to 1500 BCE.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%81n%CC%A5g%CA%B7n%C3%ADs\\\ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...*