[tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

--- In cybalist@..., cas111jd@... wrote:

> Vakarine, Vakarinë, Wakarine is the Lithuanian goddess of he

evening,

> identified with the setting Venus. Her name is derived from Lith
> vakar, 'evening'.

Vakari`ne. 'of the evening' is a derivation from va~karas 'evening',
but I am not aware of such a goddess and doubt it ever existed. Looks
like an artefact of a 19th c. romantic writer (we have _hundreds_ of
such artefacts).

>She is also called Marios Zvaigzde, the 'Sea Star'.

I don't know. At least the form is grammatically incorrect. The
correct form for 'The Gulf's Star' would be <ma~riu, z^vaigz^de.~>.
Your form suggests unattested, as far as I know, singular *maria
instead of normal plural ma~rios 'Curonian gulf'.

> The Russians have the goddess Vechernyaya Zvezda `The Evening
> Star', 'she of the aurora of Dusk/ Twilight',, and
> the dawn-goddess Utrennyaya ('she of the aurora of Morning'.

Looks like a romantic fiction as well. What is your source?

Sergei