Re: Vanir etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:
> > >If I were to compare the name of the Vanir with known Germanic
> > >words, I'd suggest a connection with *wana- 'deficient, lacking,
> > >incompletely formed'
> >
> > Akin to Latin vanus?
>
>
> Hardly credible.
> In Lokasenna (Loki's invective) - and Loki was my patron when I was
> young - we read that many Vanir were accused of coprophilia and
> scatophagy. Sotty to mention similar perversions. It was said that
> Njo"rdhr was used as piss-vessel by his female servants. Loki was
> there inspired by toxic hydromel with stramonium and amanitha
> muscaria infused. Prove it, it gives strange effects!
> But despite of this, Vanir had certainly high opinion of

theirselves.

> So a connection with a deprivative Latin /va:nus/ is so improbable
> that it's idle to discuss it anymore.
> It's an extreme attempt to find IE connection for anything, even

for

> Klingonian and Vulcanian!
> We'f better to dismiss them all as "vain" and to put an end to this
> senseless Affentheater!
>

The Vanir also married their sisters. The kingdom of Vani is Colchis.
That the people of Colchis were of Egyptian descent was proved to
Herodotus by the fact that both peoples alone in the world allowed
sibling marriages.

Torsten