Re: Requalivahanus
- From: Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup <pinnerup@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Apr 2009 20:06:19 GMT
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:42:48 +0000, Heidi Graw wrote:
Requalivahanus. Name of a god on a votive inscription from Blatzheim
a.d. Neffel, Germany from the time between the 2nd/4th centuries [...]
area of the Germanic tribe of the Ubii [...] can best be related to a
Germanic word *rehwaz "darkness." This could indicate a god of the
underworld although from the inscription we know that fruit was
dedicated to him.
Sounds very reasonable.
****
My own unprofessional thoughts:
Requalivahanus...
Requal - Ivan
qualis - Ivan
Ivan is a Hebrew word for "god is gracious." qualis is a Latin word
for "kind of, type."
Requalivahanus may mean:
"the kind of god who is gracious."
You are right when you say it is unprofessional. I don't mean to cause
offense, but there are a number of problems here. Firstly, words aren't
formed in this way. Hebrew-Latin compounds like that do not occur - and
certainly not in that context. People do not name their gods using bits
and pieces from faraway languages. Secondly, "Ivan" is certainly not a
Hebrew word. It's a Slavic version of the name "Yochanan", which indeed
originally meant "Yahweh is merciful", but I trust you can see how
dissimilar "Ivan" and "Yochanan" are. The name has undergone heavy
distortion in the transmission, and noone in 2nd century Germania would
know Hebrew, nor the Slavic name "Ivan" which is in itself of a much later
date.
/Rasmus
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