Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia

--- On Wed, 10/15/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia
> To: "raucousd" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 10:46 PM
> At 7:30:18 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, raucousd
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > There are other pairs beside Devas and Ashuras who
> show a
> > similar pattern of demonization and they usually fall
> > across the same language groups. For example Atar is
> the
> > word for sacred fire in Avestan, but it appears as the
> > demon Atri in Sanskrit. This is identified with the
> Old
> > Saxon and Anglo Saxon forms of Ostara and Easter, more
> or
> > less.
>
> This seems unlikely: my understanding is that the etymology
> of <a:tar> is unknown.
>

Are you (raucousd) trying to say that
Easter and Ostara are from a compound of os- + atar- (vel sim)?
Something like "God fire, God hearth"?