According to Tacitus's Germania (AD 98), Tuisto (or Tuisco) is the legendary divine ancestor of the Germanic peoples. The figure remains the subject of...
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No. Title Length 1. "Tuistos Herz" ("Tuisto's Heart") 6:13 2. "Der Tod Wuotans" ("The Death of Wotan") 6:43 3. "Ansuzgardaraiwô" ("Warriors of Ansuzgarda")...
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the only source of these myths. Tacitus wrote that Mannus was the son of Tuisto and the progenitor of the three Germanic tribes Ingaevones, Herminones and...
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Savitr, Dhatr, Prajapati, and Vishvakarman, due to his role as a fashioner. Tuisto Dalal, Roshen (2014-04-15). The Vedas: An Introduction to Hinduism's Sacred...
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the god Mannus, son of Tuisto. Tacitus also mentions a second tradition that there were four sons of either Mannus or Tuisto from whom the groups of...
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Járnsaxa Móði and Magni, Þrúðr Most attestations of Germanic paganism Tuisto (Latinized Germanic) "double", from the Proto-Germanic root *twai – "two";...
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historical linguistics and comparative mythology, scholars have linked Ymir to Tuisto, the Proto-Germanic being attested by Tacitus in his 1st century CE ethnography...
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between Tacitus's account of Tuisto and Mannus and the Gylfaginning account of the creation of the world. The name Tuisto, if it means 'twin' or 'double-being'...
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who is also the founder of the Germanic people under the name of the god Tuisto, mentioned by Tacitus. In the meantime, Kircher's conclusions are debated...
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Aventinus (ca. 1525) reported Gothus as one of 20 dukes who accompanied Tuisto into Europe, settling Gothaland as his personal fief, during the reign of...
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