Re: [tied] Re: Germanic Scythians?

At 4:40:03 AM on Friday, March 21, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> BTW "Hunibald" mentions one Heligastus, the great prophet
> of the Sicambri (under Bassanus 288 - 252) in the "Chronik
> der Francken Ursprung" (Johannes Trittenheim, Frankfurt
> 1605). The Gallehus horns, found in 1639 and 1734,
> according to the inscription, were decorated by one
> Hlewagastir. Obviously the Gallehus horns must be a
> forgery.

The comment would be silly even if runic <hlewagastiR> and
this <Heligastus> were the same name, but in fact they
clearly have distinct protothemes.

Brian