Vates
Vates The earliest Latin writers used vates to denote "prophets" and soothsayers in general ... Then Ovid could describe himself as the vates of Eros (Amores 3.9). According to ... 2] Diodorus Siculus [3] and Poseidonius, the vates (ουατεις ... being the druids and the bards. The Vates had the role of seers and ...
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Talk:Vates
Talk:Vates Ok! I didn't know of the ... be an uncertain issue among references whether Vates is indigenous to Latin or from Celtic ... that Woden is actually derived from the Vates (the celtic word), as *Vatinos, i.e. the god associated with the Vates. dab (ᛏ ) 08:18, 1 May 2005 ... Woden may be connected etymologically with the Vates. The word is also cognate with ...
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Talk:Odin/Archive2
... with the Celtic priestly caste of the Vates. The Celtic word is ultimately derived from ... My reference is Rübekeil (2003) (cited on Vates). Note that Adam von Bremen in Wotan ... with the Celtic priestly caste of the Vates. The Celtic word is ultimately derived from ... My reference is Rübekeil (2003) (cited on Vates). Rübekeil (2003) reconstructs pre-Proto-Germanic *Vatinos ... god Woden may be connected with the Vates."[4] But the Celtic word which ...
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Talk:Druid
... three kinds, of priests, druids, bards and vates? The bard article makes no mention, and the vates one I have only just created. Could ... authors called ovate and Roman authors called vates (see Strabo). Ovate and vates are etymologically related to each other and ... mean "satire." Most scholars reason that the vates would be present as "seers" at ...
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Wodanaz
... be "he [the god/lord] of the Vates" (p. 33), which he tentatively identifies with ... priests administring the human sacrifices were the Vates. Lugus is strangely not mentioned by Lucanus ...
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Celtic polytheism
... been best known by the Gaulish term vates, cognate with the Latin vates ("seers"). This threefold heirarchy had its reflection ... the filidh evidently correspond to the Gaulish vates. The word "druid" is often cited as ...
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History of Ireland   (translated from French)
... up of druids, of bardes and of vates . The druids have in load the religion ... praise, the satire or the blame; the vates are soothsayers who devote themselves more particularly ...
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User:Geogre/Talk archive 5
... tell us What It All Means. That vates part of poetry is sometimes found in ... was one, was a renunciation of the vates stance of the poet. The Beats and ...
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Bard
... class of Celtic priest (c. f. druid, vates). From this romantic use came the epitheton ... Three Bards Brobdingnagian Bards Aois-dàna Druid, Vates Fili, Fáith, Gorsedd Minstrel, Skald, Rhapsode, Udgatar ...
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Mj'ltos Sahtoy'ris   (translated from Greek)
... had declared: "My inspirations come almost oyranokate'vates. Many times with distress. No time I ...
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