From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 11504
Date: 2001-11-26
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:46 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: 2: ANNA, ANA, ANN, HANNAH
> Joao
>
> I understand that Anna in Irish in Aine, pronounced "Enya" hence
> the popular singer who goes by that name.
>
> The origins of the word Anna seems to be the Biblical Hannah - the
> name given to the mother of the prophet Samuel. Hannah itself has an
> interesting origin. It seems to have been originally Hurro-Hattic
> meaning "Mother". Their chief "Goddess" was called Hannahannah
> (Grandmother = literally Mother's mother). Hannahannah may have
> been the name of the Goddess of Catal Huyuk - she shares the same
> "throne of lions" or of "leopards", and was also guardian of the
> grain of harvest. It has been suggested that Hannahannah was the
> origin of the Greek Urania (Ur-Ania = All-mother), a title used for
> the goddess Gaia, and later identified with her husband "Uranus" -
> possibly through association with the IE *Varuna.
>
> Anna also crops up in the Syrian Goddess, made by adding the Semitic
> *t feminine ending to the name. Anat (Hebrew Anath) was the wife of
> Baal, a ferocious goddess who fought great battles on behalf of her
> husband (a little like Hannah's battles in favour of her son Samuel =
> "the Name of God"... a memory of the goddess and her divine child
> perhaps?)
>
> Amongst the Minoans, the chief Goddess (probably the snake Goddess)
> was taken into Mycenaean religion as Potnia Athanai (Mistress
> At-hanai) who emerged in classical times as Pallas Athene.
>
> It has even been suggested that Hannahanna is the name that lies
> behind the Sumerian Goddess Inanna. Inanna is a non-Sumerian name,
> and it has been suggested that her name, possibly Proto-Euphratean, is
> related to the later Hurrian mother goddess. The Elamite and later
> Persina Goddess Anahita (Anah-ita = Little Anna) may be derived from
> the same source. Anahita seems to have been the Goddess who conferred
> the throne on Archaemenid monarchs, in the same way that Inanna did to
> the early Sumerians, and Ishtar did to Tammuz.
>
> The widespread provinance of this name certainly seems to confirm some
> of the recent thinking that the Proto-Khatti-Hurro-Urartuans were the
> people who originally made the breakthrough into agriculture.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > ANNA
> > Portuguese: Ana
> > Gallician: Ana
> > Spanish: Ana
> > Catallonian: Ana, Anna
> > Basque: Ana
> > French: Anne
> > Occitanian:
> > Rheto-roman:
> > Italian: Anna
> > Sardinian:
> > Romanian: Anna
> > English: Ann, Anne, Hannah, Anna, Annah
> > Old English:
> > Dutch: Anne, Antje (hyp.)
> > German: Anna
> > Old High German:
> > Danish:
> > Norwegian:
> > Icelandese:
> > Swedish:
> > Norse:
> > Gothic:
> > Finnish : Anja, Anna, Anne, Annikki, Annukka, Antje
> > Hungarian:
> > Church Slavic:
> > Russian : Anna
> > Belorussian : Anna
> > Ukrainian : Anna
> > Polish : Anna, Hanna
> > Czech : Anna
> > Slovak : Anna
> > Bulgarian : Anna
> > Serbocroatian: Anna
> > Macedonian
> > Slovenian
> > Lithuanian : Ona, Onyte
> > Latvian : Ana
> > Modern Greek
> > Byzantine
> > Classic Greek
> > Albanese : Ana
> > Armenian
> > Irish
> > Welsh
> > Hawaiian : Ana
> > Arabian
>
>
>
>
>
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