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The ethnonym is attested in Latin as Teutonēs or Teutoni (plural) or, more rarely, as Teuton or Teutonus (singular). [2] It transparently derives from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stem *tewtéh₂-('people, tribe, crowd') attached to the suffix -ones, which is commonly found in both Celtic (Lingones, Senones, etc.) and Germanic (Ingvaeones, Semnones, etc.) tribal names during the Roman era.
Defining characteristics of the Great Goddess are a bird headress and a nose pendant with descending fangs. [10] In the Tepantitla and Tetitla murals, for example, the Great Goddess wears a frame headdress that includes the face of a green bird, generally identified as an owl or quetzal, [11] and a rectangular nosepiece adorned with three circles below which hang three or five fangs.
Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí (Hastséoltoi, Hastyeoltoi, Shooting God) Hakʼaz Asdzą́ą́ (Cold Woman) Náhookǫs Baʼáádí (Whirling Woman) Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá (Spider Grandmother) Są́ (Old Age Woman) Tséghádiʼnídíinii Atʼééd (Rock Crystal Girl) Gwich'in. Tetogolee; Tahltan (Nahanni) Cenakatla'x (Salmon Woman) Tlingit. Djiyin ...
The Cimbri are depicted as ferocious warriors who did not fear death. The host was followed by women and children on carts. Aged women, priestesses, dressed in white sacrificed the prisoners of war and sprinkled their blood, the nature of which allowed them to see what was to come. Strabo gives this vivid description of the Cimbric folklore:
The Ambrones are generally classified as a Germanic tribe. [2] [3] [1] Celtic influences have also been suggested, but this is controversial.[2]According to Hans Kuhn and Reinhard Wenskus, the Ambrones may have originated in Jutland, around the island of Amrum or Fehmarn, from which they accompanied the Teutons in their southward march in the late 2nd century BC.
Furor Teutonicus ("Teutonic Fury") is a Latin phrase referring to the proverbial ferocity of the Teutons, or more generally, of the Germanic tribes of the Roman Empire period. Generally, the original expression is attributed to the Roman poet Lucan (d. AD 65). It occurs for the first time in his work, Bellum civile/Pharsalia.
The migrations of the Cimbri and the Teutons Roman victories Cimbrian and Teutone victories. The Battle of Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence) took place in 102 BC.After a string of Roman defeats (see: the Battle of Noreia, the Battle of Burdigala, and the Battle of Arausio [1] [2]), the Romans under Gaius Marius finally defeated the Teutones and Ambrones as they attempted to advance through the ...
Various suggested functions include god of food (Simon Grunau), smithing god (similar to Slavic Svarog and Greek Hephaestus), god creator (derived from related Lithuanian word kurti – to create), god of harvest and grain, evil spirit, god of fire. Some even doubted whether it was a god at all and suggested that it was a name given to a corn ...