Re: Uni (was: Odin as a Trojan Prince)

--- In cybalist@..., "Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...> wrote:

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> > Yes, but the Romans stole even more from the Etruscans. Compare

Roman

> > Juno to Etruscam Uni.
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> Can not Roman Venus be produced from Etruscan Uni as well ?
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> As far as I know, unlike the majority of Greek deities Aphrodite

has neither

> Aegean (Pelasgian?) nor IE, but the Semitic source - a variant of

Astarta.

> Thus, if we accept the Aegean (West Anatolian) origin of Etruscans,

they

> could not have an Astarta-related deity in their pantheon (if to

exclude the

> coincidence of the parallel borrowing). When Romans got a wish to

have their

> pantheon mirroring the Greek's one they had to "invent" a goddess
> corresponding to Aphrodite. Some functions of the Uni image could

fit it

> well. So Etruscan Uni would be represented in the Roman mythology

twice - as

> Juno (~ Hera) and Venus (~ Aphrodite). IMHO.
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> Alexander

Isn't *w-n- "friend; desire" IE?

Torsten