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Tabiti was the chief deity of the Scythians, the goddess of the hearth, and was equivalent to the Greek goddess Hestia.〔Hdt. 4.59.〕 Tabiti means "the one who heats"〔G. Dumézil, ''Romans de Scythie et d'alentour'' (Paris, 1978), p.143.〕 and perhaps symbolises the sacred element of fire, being linked to the cult of fire.〔Mariko Namba Walter, Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, (Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture, Volume 1 ), ABC-CLIO, 2004, page 605.〕〔Christoph Baumer, (The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors ), I.B.Tauris, 2012, p.236〕 ==Name== The origin of the word is uncertain, however various etymological attempts have been proposed: *German linguist Harald Haarmann derives "Tabiti" from the Proto-Indo-European word root '' *tap-'' ("heat up; stir up (of fire)") and lists Old Iranian ''tapayati'' ("the one who stirs up the fire") as a cognate term.〔Harald Haarmann, (Skythisch, 1. Geschichte und Kultur der Skythen. ) p.920.〕 Further cognates include Sanskrit ''tap-, tapati-'' 〔http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&beginning=0+&tinput=tap&trans=Translate&direction=AU〕 Russian ''топить'' (''topíť'', "to stoke, heat"), Latin ''tepidus'' ("warm"), Hittite ''tapašša'' ("heat, fever"), Irish ''tine'', Cymric ''tán'' ("fire") and Avestan ''tafnu-'' ("fever").〔http://www.heinrich-tischner.de/22-sp/2wo/wort/idg/kelt/tene.htm〕 *Turkish-Tatar Etruscologist Adile Ayda derives "Tabiti" from the Turkic word ''tap'', ''tabynu'' ("to worship"), corroborated by Etruscan ''than'' ("to beseech"), and connects it with the Etruscan God(dess) Tabiti.〔Adile Ayda, (Etrüskler (Tursakalar) Türk idiler. ) İlmî Deliller. Ankara: 1992.〕 *Montclair State University Professor H. Mark Hubey connects "Tabiti" with a whole host of Turkic words related to fire, heating, metal working, fire-worship and branding, specifically beginning with the roots ''tap-''/''tab-''/''tam-''/''tep-''/''tev-''/''tem-'', forming words such as: ''tıbır'' ("hearth, fireplace"), ''temir'' ("iron"), ''taba'' ("frying pan"), ''tabak''/''tepir''/''tevsi''/''tepsi'' ("metal plate, dish"), ''tamĝa'' ("stamp, brand"), ''tab''/''tap'' ("scar, mark on the body"), ''tabın''/''tapın'' ("to worship"), ''tablaw'' ("forging; smithery"), ''tap-'' ("service"), ''tam'' ("home, hearth, fire"), ''tamū'' ("hell"), ''tav'' ("proper heat"), ''taŋ'' ("sky, sunrise, daylight"), ''kav'' ("tinder").〔H. M. Hubey, (Akkadian and Prototurkic, First chapter e.g. Akkadian words beginning with /a/. Version 1a. 2003 ), In: (Uysal – Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative ).〕 Although it is said that many of these words are borrowed from Persian, Hubey argues that there is a great deal of evidence to show these words and others like them were not borrowed from Iranian but the reverse, since these words are also related to the words for forging,〔 which are commonly rooted in the proposed Proto-Altaic root words '' *t`áp`à'' ("to worship"), '' *t`ébo'' ("to help, assist, serve"),〔 '' *t`ep`V'' ("warm, to burn").〔 Hubey further connects these Turkic words with the Hurrian root ''tab-''/''taw-'' ("to cast metal"), Sumerian ''tibira'' ("iron") and Etruscan ''Tiber'' ("iron mines on the river Tiber").〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tabiti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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