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Tuisto
According to Tacitus's ''Germania'' (98 CE), Tuisto is the divine ancestor of the Germanic peoples. The figure remains the subject of some scholarly discussion, largely focused upon etymological connections and comparisons to figures in later (particularly Norse) Germanic mythology. In the larger Indo-European pantheon, Tuisto is equated to the Vedic Tvastar.
==Etymology==
The ''Germania'' manuscript corpus contains two primary variant readings of the name. The most frequently occurring, ''Tuisto'', is commonly connected to the Proto-Germanic root ''tvai'' ("two") and its derivative ''tvis'' ("twice"; "doubled"). Allusions to intersex is entirely conjectural, as the tvia/tvis roots are also the roots of any number of other concepts/words in the Germanic languages. Take for instance the Germanic "twist", which, in all but the English has the primary meaning of "dispute/conflict".〔Claims of a connection between Tuisto and ''Teut'' and/or ''Teutones'', or worse, the former and the Buddha name ''Tat'' as proposed by Hargrave Jennings in his ''Indian Religions'' (1890; republished in 1996) are to be rejected as grand examples of pseudoscientific language comparison. Though rejected outright in scholarly journals even before full publication, Faber's ideas apparently gained a wide circulation. Cf. Valpy (1812:227).〕
The second variant of the name, occurring originally in manuscript ''E'', is Tuisco (sometimes rendered Tuiscon). One proposed etymology for this variant reconstructs a Proto-Germanic ''tiwisko'', and connects this with Proto-Germanic ''Tiwaz'', yielded the meaning "son of Tiu". This interpretation implies that Tuisco is the son of the sky god (Proto-Indo-European ''Dyeus'') and the earth-goddess.〔Lindauer (1975:81). Nearly the same proposal was made by Grimm (Stallybrass 2004a:344) as early as 1875.〕
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