--- Le Bateman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The feminine noun Sunna is used in the Merseburg
> Documents. Also Old English
> masculine noun mona is for moon.

The fact that a language has a word for the sun or
moon does not indicate that it is considered a deity.


 >Sol was the Norse  goddess Daughter of
> Mundilfare she married Glen.

Did you mean to write sun goddess?

> Siv was also Sun Goddess she was the mother of
> Ull and Tyr.

Were there two sun goddesses then?

> Haeden, Ull, and Heimdallr are also  said to be
>aspects of the  Sun.

Said by whom?  Is this in the original sources or the
interpretations of folklorists?


>The Old English noun Bael is also feminine.
> Means Furnace, Fiery,  brillience. In all Germanic
languages the sun is  feminine. Old English Sunne
> is feminine as I said in the Merseberg Charms Sunna
> is also feminine.

Okay. You have made your point that  sun is a feminine
noun.  It is still quite a jump from feminine noun to
goddess.  Turnip is feminine in German; was the turnip
worshipped as a goddess?


>In The  Eddas of Snori Sol is the sun Goddess. Her
>brother  was the moon they were  chased by two
wolves.

Now we are getting somewhere.  It is curious, though,
that the Latin "Sol" should be used rather than a
Germanic root.  Are Sol and her brother (what was his
name, btw?) identified as sun and moon in the text, or
is this a later interpretation??  If so, on what
evidence?

Andrea Sophia

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