Talk:Tages
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[edit] Blocked? Shocked.
"Also Roman spelling Tages. God of wisdom. Mentioned by various Roman authors (Cicero, De Div. ii 50, 51; Ovid, Met. xv 558 ff; Lucan, i 637). He commonly appeared at ploughing-time and taught Etruscans divination. He is either the son or grandson of Tinia (Roman Jove), or he was born directly from a freshly-plowed lot. He was depicted as having two snakes for legs, and some sources claimed that he was a daemon."
I removed this from the list in Etruscan mythology, which was tagged as original work. It cites some Roman authors. These need to be checked out by reading what the author says and then seeing if the conclusions can be drawn from what is said. Then it needs to be worked into an expanded article as Tages is not the least significant figure of Etruscan religion. But that is not why I removed it. A list is a list not a second article. The details if such they are (and some are) belong here in this article. So here it is. In the list I'm following Bonfante's list (so far) so I said some minimal, appropriate thing. The link leads to this article. For the blocking, I seemed to have been blocked from sticking this in the article. OK, you'd rather have it here. Fine.Dave 21:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
- Badly worded text, insufficiently thought out, dumb usage of lot, but original? How can a few lines of description with three classical references be imagined as "original research? If there is no mention of Tages remaining now at Etruscan mythology, the reader is Wikipedia is being disserved. Dictionary thinking divides subjects into minute bits, like this one, which might as well have been blanked. Who will ever find this here? Not I. --Wetman 12:50, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
