Talk:Dawn deities
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Gender exclusivity
editWhile goddess are more popular, gods of the dawn do exist. Also, some cultures associate dawn with twilight, while others see them as separate phases. I suggest we change this into an article about dawn & twilight Gods. Otherwise, delete it/merge with Solar deity & List of solar deities.Artheartsoul1 (talk) 02:47, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Artheartsoul1: I agree that there are also deities that are not under the scope of the term 'goddess'. I also agree that this page should be renamed, but I propose "Dawn deities" instead, so that it would be more inclusive. PCommission (talk) 13:47, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Article split troubles
editNow, this article is just called Dawn goddess. Earlier, there was an article named "Dawn goddess (Proto-Indo-European)". Ausos redirected there, but now is redirected here; which is rather inadequate, considering the article Hausos. (The spellings with or without an h are essentially just different scolarly ways to represent h2a-, I suppose.)
The content reflects the earlier focus on "Indoeuropean culture" - as axiomatically identified with "cultural elements being of linguistically identifyable Indoeuropean origin". This is problematic, since this axiom sometimes is clearly invalid, and anyhow often the equivalence of 'liguistic relations' and 'cultural affinity' is disputed. In this case, including Etruskan goddesses in the list of Indoeuropean versions is linguistically false; but culturally indeed the Etruscans was influenced by and in their turn influenced Indoeuropean speaking people in the Meditarrean region.
I'll change the misleading redirect. The article itself perhaps should change focus to a more general discussion on dawn goddesses/gods from different cultures; c.f. the suggestion by Artheartsoul1 supra. I am too ignorant to do this myself. E.g., actually, I thought that the (Mediterranean) identification of the planet Venus with the godess of love went back at least to Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar/Astarte; but I have no idea whatsoever about Sumerian or Akkadian proper dawn deities. (Moreover, of course, "the dawn" and "the morning star" may have been associated independently in several cultures.) JoergenB (talk) 20:48, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
Egyptian not Indo-European
editShould be moved out of the list... AnonMoos (talk) 00:44, 30 March 2020 (UTC)