Re: [tied] Bakkhos etymology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>
> Dyonision is a later good, it cannot have IE origin,

It's "Dionysus", or are you possibly trying to refer to a
building?

> it appeared later in the Thracian mithology and was imported too
> by Phyrigians. Ares was originary the good of the hard winter,
> of the cumplitely wind. Presumabely his name is the one which is
> at the origin of the name of the month "Januarius", and not Jovis
> (Janus) as generaly assumed.

Are you trying to equate Jove and Janus? If so, that's not
correct. Regardless, you can't seriously be suggesting we
reject the name of Janus, the god of portals and beginnings,
as the base of "Januarius", the name of the first month of
the year, in favor of "Dionys-".

Please look at these three words again, more carefully:

Janus
Januarius
Dionysus

What pattern emerges?

David