What is dennitsa is unknown to most people, since this word is obsolete. It has many meanings, although close to each other, but rarely used in everyday speech. As a rule, it is used as a poetic image. More about it will be described in the article.
Dictionary meanings
When answering the question of what is a dowel, let us turn to dictionaries that say that this term in poetry denotes the morning dawn. It is also an image of a morning star and the name of the planet Venus during sunrise.
The etymology of the word "stall" goes back centuries. It is formed from the word “day”, which came to us from the Proto-Indo-European language, was transformed in Old Indian, then in Proto-Slavic, then in Old Russian, and later in Russian. It is worth noting that this word with various pronunciation variants later appeared in the Belarusian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Slovenian languages.
Continuing to study what dennitsa is, it will not be superfluous to mention its synonyms. It:
- dawn;
- dawn;
- shine;
- star;
- Aurora;
- the world;
- squeamish;
- lightbearer.
The dennitsa among the Slavs
What is dennits among the Slavs? She was called Zaryanitsa, Matins, Zorinka, Svetlussa and the Chigir Star. The bastion symbolized the midday dawn or the morning star. In the myths of the Slavs, one can find several variations of the personification of the word "stall", for example:
- Sister of the sun;
- Mother of the sun;
- Daughter of the sun.
Giving a definition of what is a daylight, it can be argued that this is a harbinger of sunrise, which, as it were, brings the sun to the sky. Before the beginning of the morning, the stall shines very brightly, even stronger than the sun itself.
In the mythology of the ancient Greeks, you can find an analogue of the box - this is Phosphorus, in Roman - Lucifer, and in the German-Scandinavian - Aurvandil.
The case of the ancient Greeks
According to Cicero, the morning star was called Phosphorus, which is translated from the ancient Greek language as "carrying light." Other sources suggest that Phosphorus was also identified with Hesperus (the “evening star”). It was the planet Venus called Phosphorus or Hesper, all because it is clearly visible at dawn and sunset. The rest of the time it is difficult to see because of the bright rays of the sun.
According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Phosphorus was the son of the goddess Eos (dawn). He was a favorite of the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite, and also guarded her sanctuary, which was considered a great honor in the mythology of the ancient Greeks.
Lucifer
Lucifer must also be mentioned, continuing to consider the issue of meaning. What is a box? The ancient Romans in mythology had a character named Lucifer. Naturally, he had nothing to do with the character mentioned in the Bible.
Among the Romans, he personified Venus, which, in their opinion, was the "morning star." From Latin, Lucifer is translated as “luminiferous,” “bearing light.” The ancient Romans, like the Greeks, considered Lucifer to be the "evening star" (star), calling him Vesper, by analogy with the Greek "Hesperus".
Aurvandil
Aurvandil, in fact, is the case of the Anglo-Saxons, which means "shining light, bright ray." Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Anglo-Saxons used this term, talking about Venus. In the Blickling Sermons dating from the 10th century, Aurvandil, or Eorendel, is John the Baptist. Indeed, in Christianity it was he who became the forerunner, a kind of “morning star,” who told about the appearance of Jesus Christ.
At first glance, the box is just a rare word that is out of date. However, as follows from the above, the word "horsebox" includes many meanings, has an interesting and rich history. It is amazing how this term, which has come into the Russian language from the depths of centuries, carries such an unusual semantic load both in our language and among the ancient inhabitants of Greece and the Roman Empire.