Re: [tied] Re: "Irmin" and Hermes

The craziest misunderstanding of all is the complex equation Irmin = Arminius = Hermann, from which it is deduced that the Irminsul was erected to commemorate "Hermann/Arminius", a kind of Ur-Hermanndenkmal. The Saxon Irminsul was actually described as "universalis columna, quasi sustinens omnia" (Rudolf of Fulda), made of an huge tree trunk, and if it was not a representation of the World Tree, the central pillar of the Universe, rather than a boundary marker or anyone's monument, you can spear me to an ash tree.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: "Irmin" and Hermes

--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote: > Jörmunr < *ermun- is one of Odin's epithets in Scandinavian tradition. If you want to see it, go to this address, for example: > > http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/thul4b.html > > > Piotr And another of his epithets is Herjann < *herj-. So many coincidences.