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gorseddphungus G
gorseddphungus Mar 15, 2006 22:13:25
Replying to PeterH

I havent seen any etymologist deny those links so far. Consider that thunder in Spanish is TORmenta which is also the same way as tormento or 'torment'. The fact that the bull (or toro) was a fetishist religious symbol which represented the Sun and the dying God of vegetation for the Keltiberians also links him with the indoeuropean Thor. And the king, ritual or factual, had his own 'throne'. The number of Tor- placenames is also large and it belongs to the list of IE prefixes.

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PeterH Mar 15, 2006 22:49:04
Replying to gorseddphungus

and we should remember that Thor is mispronounced in English.. In Scandinavia it is Tor just as my Portal name is pronounced "Torgrim" and not "Thorgrim", Thor Heyerdahl is Tor Heyerdahl.

So with a T instead of a Th - Tor, Tunor and Taranis begin to sound more alike and are all thunderers. Anyone know how the Welsh would pronounce "taran" meaning thunder?

Torro and Taurus the "thundering bull" is interesting too if you have read the "Bull from the Sea" a novel about earthquake in ancient Crete