Re: [cybalist] Re: Easter

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 2193
Date: 2000-04-25

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