Editing Mount Parnassus (section)

==Etymology==
The philologist [[Leonard Robert Palmer]] suggested that Parnassus is a name derived from [[Luwian language]], one of the [[Anatolian languages]]. In his view, the name derives from ''parnassas'', the possessive adjective of the [[Luwian language|Luwian]] word ''parna'' meaning ''house'', or specifically ''temple'', so the name effectively means the ''mountain of the house of the god''.<ref name="Palmer">{{cite book | last=Palmer | first=Leonard R. | author-link=Leonard Robert Palmer | year=1965 | title=Mycenaeans and Minoans | edition=2nd | location=New York | publisher=Alfred A. Knopf | page=30}}</ref> Such a derivation, being consistent with the reputation of the mountain as being a holy one, where the power of divinity is manifested, has always been considered a strong one, even by critics of the theory. Palmer goes on to postulate that some pre-Greek people were Anatolian, perhaps from an earlier wave of conquest, and that their country and facilities were taken by the proto-Greeks.

The consistency, however, ends there. With regard to a possible preponderance of the evidence, this one word remains an isolate{{Dubious|There are other mountains in Greece that contain the Anatolian root Parna: Parnetha, Parnon|date=January 2024}}. There is no historical or archaeological evidence to tie the name to an Anatolian presence. [[George E. Mylonas|G. Mylonas]], reviewing the possibilities, found nothing at all to tie the archaeology around the mountain to anything Anatolian, and although a probable Cretan connection has been detected, there is nothing to tie the Cretans to the Luwians.<ref>{{cite journal | first=George E. | last=Mylonas | title=The Luwian Invasions of Greece | author-link=George E. Mylonas | journal=Hesperia | volume=31 | number=3 | year=1962 | pages=221–316 | jstor=147122 | url=https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/147122.pdf}}</ref> [[Linear A]], the script of the [[Minoans]], as the Cretans have been called, remains yet undeciphered. In summary, the ethnicity of the pre-Greek people or peoples, after many decades of scholarship, remains unknown, and there is yet no explanation of how and when this mountain was named with a Luwian name.