Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!uchinews!ncar!noao!news.Arizona.EDU!SkyBlu.CCIT.Arizona.EDU!kcn From: Kenneth New Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.mythology,alt.pagan,alt.satanism,talk.religion.misc Subject: Re: NCowham: Re: The Sabbatic Goat Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:59:22 MST Organization: The University of Arizona Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <43heim$enq@nkosi.well.com> <43t20r$7up@nkosi.well.com> <440quj$qt@jobe.shell.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <440quj$qt@jobe.shell.portal.com> Xref: shell.portal.com alt.magick.tyagi:4320 alt.mythology:19132 alt.pagan:122579 alt.satanism:24815 talk.religion.misc:179180 > >Cernunnos is the Roman name for Huon, among other Celtic and pre-celtic > >european deities. Cernunnos is not a Latin word. It means nothing in Latin, nor is the word similar to any god in Rome or Italy. It is far easier to believe that this is the Celtic name for the divinity in question arther than a Roman synchretization. This is also supported by the -os ending on Cernunnos, not used in Latin this late. > > >By the way - I'm sure you are also well aware that roman > >inscriptions are some of the best icongraphic evidence we > >have for celtic god-names. They seem to have recorded them > >fairly faithfully, whilst linking them with a equivalent god > >of the classical pantheon. There is no reason to believe that it was just the Romans who were synchretizing local gods to their own. This seems to be a common practice in ancient paganism. Many of the inscriptions of Celtic divinities are unlikely to have been Roman work. Doesn't it just make sense that if you worshipped a fertility god, who lead the souls of the dead to the underworld and held certain magical secrets that you would consider a god with those same exact attributes in another culture to be the same? This is only one example of the logical synchretizations that occured in the Roman empire.