The Sieger Of Forts And The Slayer Of Dragons – Several Athena Hailings & Durga Comparatively Considered NOVEMBER 5, 2021 / CURWEN ARES ROLINSON
Two of the most prominent Goddess facings for the Indo-European world would have to be Durga and Pallas Athena. I have written extensively elsewhere as to various vital coterminities between Their respective theologies – however something occurred to me recently that has as-yet lain unaddressed. A similarity of these theonyms – ‘Durga’, and ‘Pallas’. For you see, it appears quite likely that a very closely related understanding is being communicated by each – even though upon the surface, these look to be rather dissimilar in purely linguistic terms. We shall start with the facing that is less familiar to the Western audience. ‘Durga’ ( दुर्गा – note the long -a) as a theonym means ‘The Inaccessible’; and while I have previously observed that it’s part of a complex of Mountain / Settlement related theonymics for the relevant Indo-European Goddess (consider: Parvati (Mountain), or various ‘Goddess of the City’ understandings (like ‘Polias’, and also including ‘Protector of the City’ –...