>Maris - Ares, Maris related to Mavort-, but I dont know to explain.
I wish you would. What's Mavort-? Accessing... Ah! Here we are. You appear
to have come to this site:
http://www.paganitas.com/txt/ing.htm
Hmm. Strange. I don't know what Mavort- is supposed to be either and yet, by
a quick scan, the rest of the information appears to be kosher. Perhaps this
is merely an idle assumption on the part of the webauthor because of Vedic
Marut-. Maybe Mavort- represents a loose preLatin reconstruction. If so,
(s)he would have been kind enough to prefix it with an asterisk for the
innocent masses. If this is truely a reconstruction, I could think of
likelier ones like *Moruts instead. Yet again, I don't know what that's
supposed to mean though. Marut- is supposed to have originally meant storm
according to one site but then that doesn't jive with the fact that Mars was
originally a god pertaining to fertility and vegetation.
>Thesan-Eos, Etruscan?
Maybe it's related to IE dhe:s-.
>Turan-Aphrodite, Turan cf. tyrannos "tyrant"
That smells of a folk etymology. I wouldn't place significance on that
connection. It can't be from /tyrannos/.
>Apulu - > Apollo). Apollon > Apullu
Greek Apollon "destroyer" (/apollyo/ "destroy"). I assume that Apollo is
associated with "destruction" ironically because of his ability to heal. He
is clearly the extension of the IE fire god even though he has been
transformed into a "sun" god in this instance. Sun, fire, same diff.
Anyways, the IE fire god is the one who helps and yet also destroys, just
like fire itself. Knowing this, Etruscan Apulu must be loaned from Greek,
not the other way around.
- gLeN
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