daian

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Updated: May 6, 2025

But this habit of borrowing was regarded with disfavour by pious conservatives, and was probably, in the width of its hospitality at least, an innovation. As Tiele remarks, we cannot derive Dionysus from the Assyrian Daian nisi, 'judge of men, a name of the solar god Samas, without ascertaining that the wine-god exercised judicial functions, and was a god of the sun.

Andrew Lang - Custom and Myth