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Talk:Athena

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"Minoan Athena"[edit]

The source for the claim about the Minoan origins of Athena contains dubious linguistics, as Minoan is a linguistic isolate and most definitely NOT an Indo-European language. Any similarities to Hittite are a coincidence at best, and confirmation bias at worst. Greek is known to have a large Pre-Indo-European substrate, chief among these is suspected to be Minoan, but that doesn't mean Greek and Minoan are related either. Carthage (talk) 21:25, 5 July 2023 (UTC)