From:    Paul Hume                              Area: MagickNet
To:      Pan                                    14 Jun 96 09:52:16
Subject: words                                  UpdReq 

Pan -
 P> i.e,  ishtar, easter, hastor, hathor, ......
 But this can run into a tricky little trap, since Hathor is not a different 
pronunciation of Ishtar, but the Hellenization of Het-heru,
which means House of Heru (Himself called Horus by the Greeks). Thus,
there is no linguistic connection between Hathor and Ishtar - who in fact some 
syncretists connect rather with Isis (Auset, Iset).
 So watch out for those cross-language homonyms...they often do NOT indicate 
common origin or similar meaning.
 Paul


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