Re: [tied] Bakkhos etymology

From: david_russell_watson
Message: 37403
Date: 2005-04-26

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> david_russell_watson wrote:
> >
> > I see no necessity to relate 'Janus' and 'Enyalios' though.
> > What has a Greek god of war to do with a Roman month besides
> > the sequence 'ar' in both of their names?
>
> do you belive then in a coincidence here?

No. For there to be a coincidence something ought to
actually coincide.

> There are 3 languages, not far away from each other, having each
> a name for the month january which coincidentaly appears to look
> appropiate?

What am I missing here? Is 'Enyalios' the name of a
month? Besides the Latin 'Januarius', the only other
name of a month that you've mentioned is the Romanian
'Gherar'. What is the third language?

David