From: alex
Message: 40547
Date: 2005-09-24
> Joao S. Lopes wrote:paralel to Diana we have Juona as godess. This name is seen commonly too
>> "Inakhos, a king of Argos, founded a city which he
>> named for the moon, Io, for that is what Argives call
>> the moon. He also had a daughter Io; Pekos who is also
>> Zeus abducted her and fathered a daughter, Libya, by
>> her. And Io, lamenting her ruin, fled to the Silpion
>> Mountain and there died. Her father and her brothers,
>> when they learned this, built a shrine to her and
>> called the place Iopolis and remained there until the
>> end. And they performed a ritual in her memory,
>> banging on each other's doors every year and saying
>> 'io, io!" - Suidas (Byzantine Lexicographer) "Io"
>
> Yes! Byzantine! It seems to me than the identification Io = Luna is
> very
> late, even later than Io = Isis. The same opinion:
> http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=IO
>
> If it is true, the Io/Iana/Diana link may be based on just a
> coincidence.
>
> Grzegorz J.