Re: Andere

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "CG" <sonno3@...> wrote:

> > There is a Gaulish goddess Andraste or Andarte, isn't there?
>
> A British goddess Andrasta and a gaulish Andarta. The second name
> surely means "Great Bear" (intensive prefix and- + arto- "bear").

"Intensive Bear"? "Surely"?

>
> Andrasta is harder to analyze - the name, as recorded in Dio

Cassius

> (it's only source), might even be corrupt - some have suggested it
> should amended to *An[d]casta, since we have an inscription

dedicated

> to a Dea Ancasta from Britain.
>

Vennemann proposes Vasconic *andera-ast-a"victorious woman", or a
Britannic compound based on Vasconic *andera-

> There is a Spanish god Andero who was identified with Jupiter, by

the

> way. This might be related to Welsh anner (from Brittonic
> *andera) "heifer",

I thought Hera was heifer-eyed?

>but Gaulish had a root andero- meaning "below,
> infernal" - which would be an odd choice for a Jovian god, but we

may

> not undertsand the particular of this specific interpretatio

Romana.

>

That wouldn't be the first time.


BTW, although Vennemann refrains from connecting Greek ané:r
with *andera, he does suggest a connection with <anthropos>

Further:
Alexandra
Kassandra


Torsten