{"id":442,"date":"2006-07-27T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=442"},"modified":"2006-07-27T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T02:04:26","slug":"rosmerta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/rosmerta\/","title":{"rendered":"rosmerta"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Gaulish Celtic mythology, Rosmerta was the goddess of fire, warmth, and abundance. A flower queen and hater of marriage, Rosmerta was also the queen of death. A Celtic goddess of fertility and wealth, whose cult was widely spread in Northeast Gaul. Rosmerta was the wife of Esus, the Gaulish Hermes. Her attributes are a cornucopia and a stick with two snakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantheon.org\/articles\/r\/rosmerta.html\" target=\"_blank\">Encyclopedia Mythica<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The name is Gaulish, and is analysed as ro-smert-a. Smert means &#8216;provider&#8217; or &#8216;carer&#8217; and is also found in other Gaulish names such as Ad-smerio, Smertu-litani, Smerius, \u00ce\u00a3\u00ce\u00bc\u00ce\u00b5\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00bf, Smertae, Smertus, etc. (Delmarre p.277). Ro- is a modifier meaning &#8216;very&#8217; &#8216;great&#8217; or &#8216;most&#8217; as found in Ro-bili (&#8216;most-good&#8217;), Ro-cabalus (&#8216;great horse&#8217;), \u00ce\u00a1\u00ce\u00bf-\u00ce\u00b2\u00ce\u00b9\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u201a (&#8216;great life&#8217;) (Delmarre pp. 261-2). The -a ending is the typical Gaulish feminine singular nominative. The meaning is thus &#8216;the Great Provider&#8217; and this accords well with her attributes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosmerta\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>see also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Ancient_Gaulish_and_British_goddesses\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia&#8217;s Ancient Gaulish and British goddesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gaulish Celtic mythology, Rosmerta was the goddess of fire, warmth, and abundance. A flower queen and hater of marriage, Rosmerta was also the queen of death. A Celtic goddess of fertility and wealth,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}