Re: [cybalist] Re: Easter

John wrote:

> There seems to be an

Indo-European version of this Goddess. Nanna

> was
> the

mother of Baldr, and the *Danua found throughout IE people from

> the

Tuatha de Danaans in Ireland to Danu in India (with Diana

> Nemorensis the

inspiration of Sir James Frazer's "The Golden Bough"),

> as a great

Indo-European fertility goddess (associated with such

> rivers as the

Donau, Dneipr and Dneistr etc), seems fairly sound I

> think. She

appears in Greek mythology as the minor goddess

> Dione. Some have

suggested that she may also be Da-meter (despite

> attempts to give this

another different origin).

>
> By the way, is the Ausora-Aurora

shift another of the s-r replacement

> we found in Tyrsenoi-Tyrrhenoi I

wonder.

>

As far as I'm concerned, Dnepr and Dnestr contain East-Iranian stem *dVn- 'river'. I'm not sure if we have Iranists on the list; they could clarify the matter.

Sergei