nahasdzáán: diyin dine’é

Etymology Literally, “our mother”, from nihá (“our”) + asdzáán (“woman”). Compare Western Apache niʼgosdzán. Changing Woman [Asdz nádleehé] Changing Woman comes closest to being the personification of the earth and of the natural order of the universe as to any other brief way of describing her. She represents the cyclical path of the seasons, birth (spring), maturing (summer), growing old (fall) and dying…

kore kosmou, setne khamwas, naneferkaptah, and imouth 9

Kore Kosmou 1 (possibly 1st century BCE or CE) I will not recount this Nativity, said Isis; I dare not, O powerful Horos, declare the origin of thy race, lest men in the future should learn the generation of the Gods. I will say only that the Supreme God, Creator and Architect of the world, at…

hammer time: vulcan, velchinus, and vilkinus

“At the head of the whole race of heroes was placed King Vilkinus “named,” says Grimm, “after Vulcanus as the Latin termination shews, a god or demigod, who must have had another and German name, and who begets with the merwoman a gigantic son Vadi, Old English Wada, Old High German Wato, so named I…