Re: 2: ANNA, ANA, ANN, HANNAH

I thought that the name Anahita was supposed to be Iranian,
meaning "unblemished, undefiled, pure" from an-, the privative
particle, and the root seen in Sk. ásita-, "dark-colored, black".
-David

--- In cybalist@..., jdcroft@... wrote:
>
> 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.