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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> there are known a lot of deities of archaic Romans. One of them is
the deity
> Angerona which was a.o. the deity of the winter. Anything known
about the
> etymology of "Angerona"?
>
> Alex
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11th Britannica says she relieved pain and sorrow, specifically
quinsy (angina) but I'd guess the function derives from the name
rather than the reverse.
She was also (primarily?) the Goddess of the winter solstice.
EB cites "according to Mommsen, ab angerendo = apo tou
anapheresthai". 'Ango' in my Latin dictionary doesn't
match 'anaphero' in my Greek dictionary, but I'm only quoting.
Dumezil, in his Archaic Roman Religion, writes "the uneasiness
and disquiet ... caused by the gradual shortening of the daylight
hours is ... expressed by another root, which has also produced the
word 'angor'. ... So a Diva Angerona allowed this kind
of 'angustiae' to pass", with his argument backed by usage of the
the word angustia by Ovid and Macrobius.
My wife claims to suffer from seasonal affective disorder.
Maybe I should tell her to sacrifice to Angerona instead of using
special lamps in Winter!
Dan Milton