The ubiquitous Ariovistus (Was Re: The etymology of herold)

From: gknysh
Message: 65743
Date: 2010-01-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
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> > --- On Fri, 1/22/10, Torsten <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > The safe bet for Arminius army
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> > GK: Ariovistus as a shape-shifting alien: from warlord to
> > priest to ??
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> That's a good description, except there was no shape-shifting; it was the same alien
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodanaz
> whom Gibbon called 'the Mahomet of the North'
> http://gutenkarte.org/place/731/14900
> chap. 26
> http://tinyurl.com/ydzml8b
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> and then he finally got his revenge as Arminius (:=)))
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> No, Arminius is not a two-element Germanic name like Ariovistus/Harigasti.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/56890
> Arminius most likely spoke NWB.

****GK: But Ariovistus/Hariasti/Arminius was multilingual: Germanic, Celtic, NWB, Iranic etc.. (add as required, with copious "references" and "analyses" (:=))) Oops. Almost forgot: why stop with the Harudes? Absolutely baseless limitation! Our shape-shifter (also clone-prone) Ario-etc.. pushed further to the north (cf. Heimskringla on Odin's voyages and appearances) and laid the bases for subsequent pushes southward to e.g. Vistulian Gothia etc..QED *****
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