Torsten,
I found this in Bell, Women of classical mythology:
ANAITIS, sometimes written Anaea, Aneitis, Tanais, or Nanaea, was an
Asiatic divinity representing the creative powers of nature. She was
worshipped in Armenia, Cappadocia, Assyria, Persia, and other parts
of Asia. She had slaves often taken from prominent families as
attendants in her temples. The female slaves were temple prostitutes,
and the males were priests and keepers of the land adjoining the
temples. Anaitis was identified by Greek writers with Aphrodite for
rather obvious reasons and with Artemis for somewhat more obscure
reasons. [Strabo 11.8.4, 12.3.36, 15.3.15, 16.1.4; Plutarch,
Artaxerxes 27, Pausanias 3.16.6; Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation
to the Greeks 43.]
--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
and Nane became Athena; only Barshamin retained his
> original form.
> "
>
> from:
>
> http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/papazian/armenia.html
>
> Vahagn? Does anybody know whom the Vani in the Caucusus were
> worshipping? And identified with Hercules? Whom Tacitus (or was it
> Caesar) insists the Germani knew?
>
> Torsten