zoria-kharis-hora-gerd

From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 10068
Date: 2001-10-09

This can be just a coincidence, but Roman twin Romulus rapted Hora (Hersilia); ON "twin" Freyr rapted Gerd. This can be a PIE root *g^Her-, linked to a sort of bright goddess? The Leukippides Phoibe and Hilaira, specially Phoibe, had names associated to "shine". Of course I can't say that Gerd's father Gymir was a Sun-God.
 
Max Mueller tried to link kharites with haritas, the bay horses of Sun chariot, but haritas < *g^Hel- "yellow".
 
And Phoibe (<*g^HwoigWa:) could be cognate to Balto-Slavic words for "star", like zvezda and cia.