Artume
Artume (also called Aritimi, Artames, or Artumes) was an Etruscan goddess who was the mistress of animals, goddess of human assemblies, and hunting deity of Neolithic origin. Etruscans later appropriated the Greek goddess Artemis.[1] Aritimi was also considered the founder of the Etruscan town Aritie which is today the Italian town Arezzo.[2]
Origin of the Name
According to Jason Reza Jorjani, the Greek goddess Artemis stems from the Persian term Arta Amesha - the eternal order. As above mentioned one of the forms of Artume is Artames, which is relatable to Arta Amesha. Following the later change of the term Arta Amesha into Daena and the change of Artemis into the Roman Diana, the influence is plausible to assume. The root for Arta is rt which in accordance with the Avestan phonology can change into ṣ̌ to become Asha. One of the influces of the philosophy behind Arta Amesha can be Arete which might linguistically be changed from to the Gathic/Younger ərəta/arəta ('establish') or arəti ('portion'), to become the Greek Arete similar to Arta a supreme principle to establish the tenets of moral behaviour, as well as the general established order of the state or the natural order, similar to the Egyptian Maat, which took on a similar role in Egyptian society and religion and the view on nature and cosmos.
Jason Jorjani gave his interpretation of the orgin of Artemis during an interview with the YouTube Channel "Gnostic Informant" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEblQMQaWc at minute 00:42:48.
Artume in popular culture
Artume appeared as a recurring character in Marvel Comics.[3] However, this is not the goddess, but a daughter of Hippolyta in Marvel Comics, similar to how her DC counterpart uses the goddess's Roman name.
References
- ^ As Artimi, see Denise Demetriou, Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 70. ISBN 9781316347898 books.google.com/books?id=p0qwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 And Thomson de Grummond, Nancy (2006). Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. pp. 12, 51, 99–103, 130–32, 141, 149, 158. ISBN 978-1-931707-86-2. Referred to as "Artumes".
- ^ Pittau, Massimo (2006). Toponimi Italiani di origine Etrusca. (Sassari, Magnum Edizioni). Referenced in English on the Aritimi-Rezzo connection in Flavio Carnevale and Marcello Ranieri, "Lunistices at Sesto Fiorentino: An Investigation on Geometry and Alignments of the Tholos Tombs of the Etruscan Princes", Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 16/4 (2016), 224. Online at http://maajournal.com/Issues/2016/Vol16-4/Full31.pdf
- ^ Van Lente, Fred; Pak, Greg; et al. (December 31, 2008). "Incredible Hercules #124". Marvel Universe. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
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