I was wondering if any of the list members might be
able to comment on some of the Etruscan divine names (ex. Tinia - Zeus, Tinas
clerar-Dioskouroi, Thevrumines-Minotaur, Turms - Hermes, Uni - Hera, Nethuns -
Poseidon, Maris - Ares, Menrva - Athena, Sethlans - Hephaistos, Thesan-Eos,
Turan-Aphrodite, Fufluns - Dionysos, Apulu - Apollo).
Obviously a couple are borrowed from Greek, albeit
much modified, and Nethuns,Uni and Maris seem clear enough as having come from
Latin and Fufluns from an Italic dialect, but I have read that Saturn, Mercury
and Menerva are adopted from an Etruscan source - can anybody
comment?
-Chris Gwinn