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  • We know that the word thesan means "dawn" since a goddess by that name is attested on mirrors too but her mythological connections are less controversial.

    Etruscan 'usil': It ain't the "sun" 2007

  • We know that the word thesan means "dawn" since a goddess by that name is attested on mirrors too but her mythological connections are less controversial.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • You mean The Etruscan: An introduction, 2nd ed. 2002, p.78: "The alternation of c: ch, t: th; p: ph may be due to a purely graphic oscillation, but puia is always written with p, and thesan, thancvilus with th."

    A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus 2009

  • Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Histia men steilanto, thesan d 'en nêi melainê ...

    Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

  • Histia men steilanto, thesan d 'en nêi melainê ...

    Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

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