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The words read "son of Hafthi" in the Gothic language and the image below is my recreation of the Snake-Witch Stone from Gotland. Hafthi was the first man to settle Gotland, with his wife Huitastierna (white star). The Guta Saga states that they had 3 sons and the triskelion is said to represent a boar, eagle, and wolf. If you have Gothic ancestry, according to legend, Hafthi is your progenitor.

The words read "son of Hafthi" in the Gothic language and the image below is my recreation of the Snake-Witch Stone from Gotland. Hafthi was the first man to settle Gotland, with his wife Huitastierna (white star). The Guta Saga states that they had 3 sons and the triskelion is said to represent a boar, eagle, and wolf. If you have Gothic ancestry, according to legend, Hafthi is your progenitor.

The words read "son of Huitastierna" in the Gothic language and the image below is my recreation of the Snake-Witch Stone from Gotland. Huitastierna's name means "white star". Hafthi was the first man to settle Gotland, with his wife Huitastierna. The Guta Saga states that they had 3 sons and the triskelion is said to represent a boar, eagle, and wolf. If you have Gothic ancestry, according to legend, Huitastierna is your progenitor.

The words read "daughter of Hafthi" in the Gothic language and the image below is my recreation of the Snake-Witch Stone from Gotland. Hafthi was the first man to settle Gotland, with his wife Huitastierna (white star). The Guta Saga states that they had 3 sons and the triskelion is said to represent a boar, eagle, and wolf. If you have Gothic ancestry, according to legend, Hafthi is your progenitor.

The words read "daughter of Hafthi" in the Gothic language and the image below is my recreation of the Snake-Witch Stone from Gotland. Hafthi was the first man to settle Gotland, with his wife Huitastierna (white star). The Guta Saga states that they had 3 sons and the triskelion is said to represent a boar, eagle, and wolf. If you have Gothic ancestry, according to legend, Hafthi is your progenitor.

The words read "daughter of Huitastierna" in the Gothic language and the image below is my recreation of the Snake-Witch Stone from Gotland. Huitastierna's name means "white star". Hafthi was the first man to settle Gotland, with his wife Huitastierna. The Guta Saga states that they had 3 sons and the triskelion is said to represent a boar, eagle, and wolf. If you have Gothic ancestry, according to legend, Huitastierna is your progenitor.

The fourth day of the month was sacred to Hermes, for that was his day of birth. Likewise the fourth day of the week (Wednesday) was named after him (in Greek it was called Hermes' day, in Latin Mercurius' day, and in Germanic Woden's day--the Norse god Woden-Odin being identified with Hermes-Mercurius). The seven days of the week correspond to the seven heavenly bodies (the five visible planets, the sun and the moon); but the ordering was based on mythic tradition. Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 20 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : "On the fourth day of the month queenly Maia bare him [Hermes]."

Homeric Hymn 4: [Hermes] whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed Nymphe, when she was joined in love with Zeus,--a shy Goddess, for she avoided the company of the blessed Gods, and lived within a deep, shady cave. There Kronion [Zeus] used to lie with the rich-tressed Nymphe, unseen by deathless Gods and mortal men, at dead of night while sweet sleep should hold white-armed Hera fast. And when the purpose of great Zeus was fixed in heaven, she was delivered and a notable thing was come to pass. For then she bare a son, of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless Gods. Born with the dawning...

Musaeus, Hero & Leander 56 (Greek poetry C5th or 6th A.D.) : "Flashing a lightning of lovely radiance from her face, even as Selene of the fair white cheeks, when she is rising."

"Herm-Athena, a statue representing Mercury and Minerva, (called by the Greeks Athene) in one figure. Pomponius Atticus having found one of these rare statues at Athens, writes to his friend Cicero, that he would send it him to adorn his library. It was natural to see Mercury and Minerva joined in the same statue, the one deity presiding over eloquence, the other over arts and sciences. On the reverse of a medal of the emperor Adrian, who piqued himself upon his learning and eloquence, is an Herm-Athena." -John Bell (1745-1831): Bell's New pantheon, or, Historical dictionary of the Gods, demi-gods, heroes, and fabulous personages of antiquity; page 394

The fourth day of the month was sacred to Hermes, for that was his day of birth. Likewise the fourth day of the week (Wednesday) was named after him (in Greek it was called Hermes' day, in Latin Mercurius' day, and in Germanic Woden's day--the Norse god Woden-Odin being identified with Hermes-Mercurius). The seven days of the week correspond to the seven heavenly bodies (the five visible planets, the sun and the moon); but the ordering was based on mythic tradition. Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 20 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : "On the fourth day of the month queenly Maia bare him [Hermes]."

"Herm-Athena, a statue representing Mercury and Minerva, (called by the Greeks Athene) in one figure. Pomponius Atticus having found one of these rare statues at Athens, writes to his friend Cicero, that he would send it him to adorn his library. It was natural to see Mercury and Minerva joined in the same statue, the one deity presiding over eloquence, the other over arts and sciences. On the reverse of a medal of the emperor Adrian, who piqued himself upon his learning and eloquence, is an Herm-Athena." -John Bell (1745-1831): Bell's New pantheon, or, Historical dictionary of the Gods, demi-gods, heroes, and fabulous personages of antiquity; page 394

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