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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RAGNAROK, post: 3077953, member: 84566&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">How wonderful! Thanks, mate. Bonnie cunyie, coin-grats!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":snaphappy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><u>I vote for </u><b><u>the <i>aquatic </i>hypothesis</u>, probably some kind of local (thracian, dacian, illyrian... who knows! </b><b>Moesia was a real crossroads!) syncretism</b> <u>around the water</u>.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">I&#039;m thinking about something like Coventina´s Well cult (Hadrian´s Wall) and others Indo-European triple deities and/or nymphs... (I know, I know, I have got to quit drinking... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie18" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">Sources <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> from Wiki: </span></b></p><p>&quot;Georges Dumézil&#039;s trifunctional hypothesis proposed that ancient Indo-European society conceived itself as structured around three activities: worship, war, and toil. In later times, when slave labor became common, the three functions came to be seen as separate &quot;classes&quot;, represented each by its own god. Dumézil understood this mythology as reflecting and validating social structures in its content: such a tripartite class system is found in ancient Indian, Iranian, Greek and Celtic texts. In 1970 Dumézil proposed that some goddesses represented these three qualities as different aspects or epithets and identified examples in his interpretation of various deities including the Iranian Anahita, the Vedic Sarasvati and the Roman Juno.</p><p>Vesna Petreska posits that myths including trinities of female mythical beings from Central and Eastern European cultures may be evidence for an Indo-European belief in trimutive female &quot;spinners&quot; of destiny. But according to the linguist M. L. West, various female deities and mythological figures in Europe show the influence of pre-Indo-European goddess-worship, and triple female fate divinities, typically &quot;spinners&quot; of destiny, are attested all over Europe and in Bronze Age Anatolia. At her sacred grove at Aricia, on the shores of Lake Nemi a triplefold Diana was venerated from the late sixth century BCE as Diana Nemorensis. Andreas Alföldi interpreted a late Republican numismatic image as the Latin Diana &quot;conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate&quot;. This coin shows that the triple goddess cult image still stood in the lucus of Nemi in 43 BCE. The Lake of Nemi was Triviae lacus for Virgil (Aeneid 7.516), while Horace called Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo (&quot;keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi&quot;) and diva triformis (&quot;three-form goddess&quot;). Diana is commonly addressed as Trivia by Virgil and Catullus&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventina" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventina" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventina</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deity" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deity</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]774543[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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