Philology of God Names

[Arthur-Robin]

Orthodox academics reject the idea that deity names of many different cultures around the world could be etymologically related other than within a few language families like Germanic (Grimm) and Indo-European (Bruce Lincoln).

However, I persisted to try and see if there were any connections and now I believe I have enough evidence to proove the thesis. I now would like to present my first lot of findings to the public and esp academics for your/their comments. All correspondences are tentative/tenuous and a few almost certainly wrong.

Some examples for your consideration (copyright 2006 Sean Bambrough):

(Contents: 1 Frey/Priapos, 2 Njord/Nereus, 3 Semele, 4 Poseidon/Donar, 5 Aquarius/Aphrodite, 6 Sin/Sindbad, 7 Selene, 8 Sol/Helios, 9 Ares, 10 Yamm/Yima/Ymir, 11 Enlil, 12 Paean/Favonius, 13 Eos/Aurora/Eostre, 14 Vayu/Aeolus.)

1. Frey/Priapos - fertility deity:
Ital Flora or Priapus; Peru Pirua; Grk Priapos or Aphrodite; Etrusc Feronia or Cupra; Nor Frey(r) or Frey(j)a or Fjorgyn; Ind Prajapati; Hitt Peruwa; Egypt Par or Khepri or Pharaoh; Slav Spor or Perchta or Per(o)un; Tupi-Guarani Peruda or Jurupari; Iran varan or Peri; Phoen Baal-Peor or Peraia; Canaan Peraia; Alban Prende; Guyana Pore/Pura; Engl Friar Tuck; Bambara Faro; (?) Brer Rabbit; Caria Aphrodisias; German Frikka; Berber Afrika.
Notes: lightning/tree phallic shape; resurrection/erection; size of male horse member; river/fertility; rabbits prolific (Fibinachi); rain/lightning fertilizes earth. (Words: Frau, friend, friday, fairy, fertility. Places: Peru.)
Refs: M Jordan, Frazer, B Walker, E Sykes, Mercatante, Baumgartner, A Room, Bernal, LA Waddell, Newborough, B Fell. [Acknowls: M Walker, Jewell, SB Cox.]

2. Niord/Nereus - water/weather deity:
Grk Nereus or Narkissos; Nor Njord; Ind Nara(yana) or Narmada; Celt Llyr/Lir or Lara; Etrusc Nortia; Jap Inari; Slav Zarya; Balt Juras-Mate; Phryg Sangarios; Polynes Ngaru or Tinirau or Tangaroa or Angarua; Eskimo Nerrivik; Mesopot Narru or Nar-Marratu or Nanna(r(u)); Germ Nerthus; Phoen Yamm-Nahar; Arab N[i/o]r; Ugarit Yari(k)h; Swahili njaro; Hitt Inara; Bambara Faro, Melanes Nareu; Afghan Nirmali; Iran Angra Mainyu.
Notes: storms at sea; moon = tides/tidal bulge, crescent = boat; fortune = sea traders/ship wrecks; rice grown in marshes; rice beer; cold = water/ice/blue/storm/north; blue/green water/sea; birth waters (wet nurse); period; blood/salt water; sea connected with undwor via down from land, deep, wrecks, subterranean waters? (Words: north, nara/aner.)
Refs: Jordan, E Sykes, B Walker, A Heidel, A Room, Hutchinson, Comte, Hrozny, Larouse, GW Cox. [Acknowls: [Lith/Latv] zine, Jonah, Grimal.]

3. Semele - earth/mother deity:
Iran Zam; Grk Semele or Demeter; Ind Zami-Mata or Soma; Ital Semo Sancus/Semo(ni); Slav (Mati-Syra-)Zemlya; Balt Zemyna or Zemepatis; Celt Damona; Mesopot Damu or Zimu(um) or Nammu; Israeli A(w)da(w)m; Finn Sampsa; Phryg Zemelo; Balt Jumis; Maya Itzam Cab or Quiche Xmucane; Afghan Kshumai; Egypt Tatumen or Tem or Seb; Haiti Zemi; Ital Vertumnus; Nor Heimdall or Gymir or Vegtam.
Notes: farming tied to earth, footless serpent earth-bound, earth/mother (Gaya/Mother Nature).
Refs: M Jordan, B Walker, Robinson/Wilson, E Sykes, LA Waddell, G Hancock, Larouse, E Brita-Titchenall, J Knappert, AH Sayce; [Acknowls: T Jantsang, KR Bolton.]

4. Poseidon/Donar: water/storm deity:
Nord Ran or Forseti or Dan or Danp; Germ Donar; Phoenic Dagon/Dagan; Israeli Leviathan; Nuer/Dinka Deng; Songhay Dongo; Togo/Ghana Tano; Hindu Danu; Greek Poseidon or Triton; Eskimo Tunek or Sedna; Celt Eil Don/Eilton or Brendan or Addanc; Polynes Tuna' or Tangaroa; Ital Tonans/Totans or Portunus or Fortuna or Neptune; Dakota Untunktahe; Mesopot Udan; Romance Ogier the Dane; Illyria Tomor; Haida Ta'ngwanla'na; Egypt Tefnut or Ranno; Navaho Tonenili, Mexican Atlatona?
Notes: storms at sea; fortune connected with sea trade & ship wrecks; moon = tides/tidal bulge; crescent/boat. (Places: Poseid(on(is)), Don, Danes. Words: thunder.)
Refs: J Spanuth, M Jordan, E Sykes. [Acknowls: Plain Truth, Eddas, Jewell.]

5. Aquarius/(Aphrodite?) - water deity:
Egypt Hapi or Abtu or Opet or Apophis?; Chin Ho Po; Ghana Opo; Iran Apo or Apam Napat; Ind Apa(s) or Apam Napat; Edda Apa; Polynes Apu-Ko-Hai or Pusi; Akkad Apsu; Slav Upinis; Mexico Opochtli; Jap Ebisu; Sumer Abzu or Lugal-abzu(ak); Ireland Abac; Ital Aquarius or Ops?; Grk Aphrodite; Celt Abnoba; Peru Copacati, Phryg Papas?
Notes: rain water; storms at sea/flood = storm; abyss/deep/depth/trench; plesio/bronto; semen watery element (wet dream)?; irrigation (canals/dykes); fertility - rain/river. (Words: abyss, pesi (Thai)?, aqua; Places: Apsuwa (Hittite), Abyssinia.)
Refs: M Jordan, J Knappert, Black/Green, A Room, E Sykes, AS LaVey, Lyall, LA Waddell, B Lincoln, Robinson/Wilson, (Comte, Z Sitchin, Larousse). [Acknowls: Jantsang.]

6. Sin/Sindbad - moon deity:
Akkad Sin(ne), Samoa Sina, Peru Si(-An), Amer Sin An, Arab Singala, Arab Sindbad, Ind Sindhu or Narasinha? or Chandra, Sumer Suen or Ziana, Songhay Zin, Grk Zen- or Selene or Hyakinthos, Etruscan Tin(ia), Siberia Ya'china'ut, Mexico Cinteotl, Israel Cain, Chibcha Chia, Tahiti Hina, Nor Hoenir, Chin Tin Hau or Shing-Moo or Heng-o.
Notes: moon = tides/tidal bulge; crescent = boat/horns; moonlight; lion yellow/mane; moon in sky/heaven; n/l interchange in Hebrew/Celt; moon disk; shepherds/travellers at night. (Words: shine, tinder. Places/peoples: Sind, Sinai, Sinhalese.)
Refs: Z Sitchin, Carter, M Jordan, LA Waddell, Black/Green, E Sykes, Fitzgerald-Lee, Z Ragozin, A Room, P Kolosimo, K Buck. [Acknowls: T Jantsang, JT Chick.]

7. Selene - moon deity:
Grk Selene; Urart Selardi; Eskimo Sila; Kenya Sela; Ital Coelus; Carthage Caelestis; Mexico Ix Chel; Arab Hilal; Babyl Sin or Thalath; Etruscan Thalna; Israel Zillah; Egypt Osiris; Ugarit Eterah; Peru Mama-Kilya or Ka-Ata-Killa; Aztec Xelhua.
Notes: moon in sky/heaven; moon = tides/tidal bulge; l/n interchange in Hebrew/Celt.
Refs: HS Bellamy, Black/Green, DM Lang, E Sykes, M Jordan, Robinson/Wilson, G Smith.

8. Sol/Helios - sun/light deity:
Ital Sol; Nor Sol or Surt; Etruscan Usil; Megalithic King Sil; Celt Sulis or Cole; Babylon Sawul; Latvia Saule; Lithuan Salde; Voodoo Oshala; Phoenicia [Shur] or Baal-salah; Canaan Baal-salah or Heres; Grk Helios; Slav Svarog; Ind Surya or Surya; Kassi Surias; Assyr Assur; Israel Saul or Suriel; Hottentot Sore-Gus; Egypt Horus or Osiris; Iran Ahura Mazda; Mexico Xolotl.
Notes: sun-burn/hot/light-fire; sun in sky/heaven; sun/star; sun/drought; lion yellow/mane/king/tropic; sun ball/disk; heliocentric; l/n interchange in Hebrew/Celt; sun & moon dyadic; size of sun. (Words: solar, heliocentric, sulphur, sowelo, swarthy, south, summer. Peoples/places: Asuras, Svarts, Swarga.)
Refs: E Sykes, M Jordan, AH Sayce, C Cook/Pears, B Walker, FH Nelson, Robinson/Wilson, Voodoo Contra, Larouse, W Pratney, A Hislop, Frazer, LA Waddell, D Rohl, Black/Green; [Acknowls: D Prince, J Jewell.]

9. Ares - war god:
Grk Ares or Herakles or Eris or Iris; Etrusc Laran; Hitt Jarri or Inara; Germ Ear or Irmin; Viking Jarl; Ind Jaras or Arjuna; Armen Ara(y); Iran Eraj/Iraj; Irish Eriu; Songhay Faran; Polynes Oro; Egypt Horus or Ra/Re; Ital Virtus or Mars; Mesopot Erra; Slav Yarovit; Nor (V)ali; Brit Arawn or Arthur or Herla; Arab A'ra; Israel Jehovahjireh; Basque Orko; Nuer (Ga)rang; Eskimo Erkilek; Peru Ira-Ya.
Notes: war, storm & hunting interconnected. (Places/peoples: Iran/Aryan, Ireland, Valhalla/Valkyries. Words: wer(e), earl, geriactic.)
Refs: M Jordan, AS LaVey, E Sykes, Assyria book, Hinnells, Ottenheimer, Z Sitchin. [Acknolws: KR Bolton.]

10. Yamm/Yima/Ymir - sea/storm god:
Mesopot Im or Nammu or Tiamat or As-im-babbar or Yamm, Syr Yamm or Asheratian, Iran Yima, Nor Ymir or Heimdall, Ind Yamuna or Ammavaru, Yoruba Yemanja or Oba Jumu, Eskimo Immap Ukua, Amer Dais-Imid, Buddh Jambhala, Mexico Amimitl, Phoenic Asheratian, Arab Yam or Amm, Grk Iamos or Amphitrite, Egypt Yamm or Ammut/Amemait or Am-Heh, Israel Javan, Celt Emrys, Zulu Inkanyamba, Dogon Amma?, Ital Almo?
Notes: blue/green sea/ocean, storms at sea, moon = tides/tidal bulge, crescent = ship, drinks, clay.
Refs: E Sykes, M Jordan, Hutchinson, D Fasold, Schoolcraft, Voodoo Contra, LA Waddell, S Langdon.

11. Enlil - weather/thunder/wind/rain/war deity:
Aztec Painal or Tlaloc, Mesopot Enlil/Illinus or Ninlil, Ind Anila, China Fei Lien or Lei Kung, Haida Hi'lina, Siberia I'lena, Grk Iris, Phoenic Aleion, Syria Liluri, Finn Ilmatar or Ilmarinen, Peru Ilyapa, Uganda/Kenya Ilat, Navaho Tonenili, Ghana Olila, Berber Lilu, Eskimo Igalilik?, Germ Irmin or Lif or Elli or Vili?, Hittite Ellel or Tilla.
Notes: hunt-storm-war inter-connected, storms in mountains, Anila/anima.
Refs: M Jordan, C Berlitz, Heidel, E Sykes Lyall, Hutchinson.

12. Paean/Favonius - wind/war god:
Ind Pavana, Lapp Pajonn, Mexico Painal, Grk Paean/Paiawon or Pontus or Phoenix?, Jap Fujin, Ital Favonius, Polynes Faivarongo or Poua-Kai, Mesopot Pap-nigin-gara, (?) Pauahtun, Chin Fei Lien/Feng Po, Nor Hoenir or Fafnir?, Celt Fea or Poeninus or Pwyll or Fionnuala?, Finn Pajainen?, Celebes Puang Matowa, Phryg Papas, Siberian Pon.
Notes: war-storm-hunt, mountain storms, bull roar/thunder, storms at sea/sailing, flood/storm, ptero/winged serp/reptile-bird/dragon, arboreal, sound, "run like the wind."
Refs: M Jordan, C Cook/Pears, Hopper, Hutchinson, E Sykes, [Acknowls: J Jewell.]

13. Eos/Aurora/Eostre - dawn god(dess):
Ind Us(h)as, Arab Uzza or Azizu/Azizos, Latvia Usins or Auseklis, Americ Osseo, Engl Eostre, Germ Ostara, Grk Eos, Ital Aurora, Jap Amano-uzume, Slav [Vesna] or Jessis, Etrusc Thesan or Usil, Hitt Sausga, Voodoo Oshun or Oshala, Armen Astlik, Israel Esau, Egypt Iusas/Eus-os, Phoenic Ousoos, Mexico Tatosi, Jap Fuchi?
Notes: fire = light/heat = sun/day; hairy* = rays sun ("Samson") = first rays of dawn (Star of Bethlehem); red hair; only one evening star (Venus) but more than one morning stars (Lucifer (Venus)/daystar, Jupiter, [Mercury]); dawn/morn (dayspring) = spring ~ birth?; red sky night/morn (red dawn); (opp/twin) morn & even stars same entity/not; Venus/(morn/eve) assoc (trinity) with (betw) start/end (rising/setting) of Sun/(day) &/or Moon/(night); Venus' periodic catastrophic "turn inside out"; *goat hairy; *goat skin; day/dawn cognate; Age of Aries; Venus dying/rising; red = fire/sun (Jap flag).
Refs K Naddair, Robinson/Wilson, Voodoo Contra, M Jordan, E Sykes, Hutchinson, Schoolcraft, Lehmann; [Acknowls: Balder, Lithuan/Latv publication.]

14. Vayu/Aeolus - winds god:
Balt Veja Mate, Ind Vayu, Iran Vata, Austral Awhiowhio, Fiji Vaoetere, Grk Aeolos, Ital Vejovis or Aeolus, China Yao or Fei Lien, Sth Amer Woo the Gloomy, Yoruba Oya, Zaire Yayu or Wai, Sudan Wiu, Benin Bo or Wu or Xewioso, Polynes Ao-Nui or Waitiri, Maori Whaitiri, Dakota Waukheon or Sioux Haokah, Jap Haya-Ji or Ojin or Fujin, Babyl Au, Dinka Aiwel, Celt Gwynn, N Amer Waupee, Eston Ai.
Notes: trees/arboreal, war-storm-hunt, spirit/breath/wind, storms at sea, bull roar.
Refs: H Schoolcraft, M Jordan, E Sykes, AH Sayce, N Davies, J Knappert, [Acknowls: J Jewell.]

Which ones are wrong? Can you add any (I'd appreciate any suggestions)? Are there any other names you'd like me to find correspondences for?

[ST88]

1. Frey/Priapos - fertility deity:
Ital Flora or Priapus; Peru Pirua; Grk Priapos or Aphrodite; Etrusc Feronia or Cupra; Nor Frey(r) or Frey(j)a or Fjorgyn; Ind Prajapati; Hitt Peruwa; Egypt Par or Khepri or Pharaoh; Slav Spor or Perchta or Per(o)un; Tupi-Guarani Peruda or Jurupari; Iran varan or Peri; Phoen Baal-Peor or Peraia; Canaan Peraia; Alban Prende; Guyana Pore/Pura; Engl Friar Tuck; Bambara Faro; (?) Brer Rabbit; Caria Aphrodisias; German Frikka; Berber Afrika.
Notes: lightning/tree phallic shape; resurrection/erection; size of male horse member; river/fertility; rabbits prolific (Fibinachi); rain/lightning fertilizes earth. (Words: Frau, friend, friday, fairy, fertility. Places: Peru.)
Refs: M Jordan, Frazer, B Walker, E Sykes, Mercatante, Baumgartner, A Room, Bernal, LA Waddell, Newborough, B Fell. [Acknowls: M Walker, Jewell, SB Cox.]

Hopi: Kokopelli (flute player)
Aztec: Tlaloc/Nuhualpilli (rain)/Chicomecoatl (corn)
Mayan: Chacmool (rain)
Egyptian: Quetesh (love)/Min (phallus/moon[?])/Heryshaf (ram)
Sumerian: Inanna (also war)
Hawaiian: Haumea (rebirth)
Babylonian: Marduk (air/earth)
Persian: Mithras (?)
Buddhist: Kumari (bestower)
Numerous Hindu gods

I don't have time right now to go into detail (sorry), but this is a start.

[Arthur-Robin]

Sorry been away for a while.

Thank you for responce but sorry I don't understand your purpose. Are you meaning they correspond in nature (not name like I meant), or are you asking if I have any discoveries on those names in others myths?

Yes Min is Mani/Manu/Meness/Vohu Manah/Minos/Menulis etc.

Iran Mithra, Roman Mithras, India Mitra may be either Phoenic Mishor/Mesopotam Mesaru (Egypt Osiris?)/Hebr Mizraim, or Grk Aether, or Babylonian Makhir? or Enmesarra?

Polynesian Haumea is Hindu Bhumi.