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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> "Ziva/Siva/Siwa/ Sieba/Zhiva/ Z'iva in the Baltic & Slavic "
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> Another idea: this goddess could be linked to ON Sif? <*Sibjo:
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What would be the etymology of Cisa? Ziva seems to mean "life" <
*gWiHwa:
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Joao,
I am not sure myself. I have also seen Ziva promoted as having
meant "life"... while to my limited understanding, Sif is derived
from "sibling".
Feel free to bring the discussion over to the PIE religion group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PIEreligion/
as someone there might be able to answer these questions better than
I can.
Sincerely,
Aydan