Re: [tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

Could be Zorya related to Greek Kharis? *g^her-?

So, it seems that "Dawn Star" would have a name derived from *aus-.

And Avestan Tishtrya? Is he Orion? <*tri-str-iyo-?

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> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > Is there some record of Celtic, Slavic and Germanic names for the
> planets
> > and main stars? What were their names before Greco-Latin influence?
> > So, there would a different string of 7 planets...
> > Sun
> > Moon
> > Morning Mercury
> > Evening Mercury
> > Morning Venus (<*aus-? cf. Eosphoros, Aurvandill)
> > Evening Venus (<*wespero-? Hesperos,Vesper)
> > Mars
> > Jupiter
> > Saturn
> >
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> I don't know a lot. The Balts and Slavs have myths centered on the
> sun, moon, and Venus in various love triangles. As I wrote earlier,
> the divine twin horse gods seem to me to equate to the rising and
> setting Mercury.
>
> A lot of the names for the morning Venus seem to be similar or
> synonymous to words for "dawn" and "east". The Balts had Ausrine
> (Lith) and Auseklis (Lett). Ausrine was also called Ausra, Ausera,
> Ausra, Auðra, Auska, Auðrinë, Aushrine, Austrine. Auseklis is also
> called Ausekls, Auseklitis, Auseklits, Auseklins, Auseklinis,
> Auseklenc, Auseklens, Ousekls, Ausjeklenis.
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> She equates to the Slavic dawn- and morning star- goddesses Zorya
> Utrennyaya (dawn) and Zvezda Dennitsa (morning star). Like
> Utrennyaya, she forms a triad with her sisters, the evening star and
> the midnight. She was also similar to the Norse Aarvak, Germanic
> Oestra, and Greek Eos.
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> Vakarine, Vakarinë, Wakarine is the Lithuanian goddess of he evening,
> identified with the setting Venus. Her name is derived from Lith
> vakar, 'evening'. She is also called Marios Zvaigzde, the 'Sea Star'.
> In Latvia she is Rieteklis.
>
> The Russians have the goddess Vechernyaya Zvezda `The Evening
> Star', 'she of the aurora of Dusk/ Twilight', Pol. Wieczorniaia), and
> the dawn-goddess Utrennyaya ('she of the aurora of Morning', Pol.
> Dnieca).
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