Zisa or Cisa is purportedly a pagan goddess once worshipped in Augsburg . Some modern scholars consider the goddess to have been an innovation of the post-medieval period.
9-532: Zisa may refer to: Zisa (goddess) , a goddess in Germanic paganism Zisa, Palermo , a castle in Italy Zisa Corona , corona on Venus People with the surname [ edit ] Alberto Zisa Alessandro Zisa (born 1965), Italian curler Ken Zisa , American politician See also [ edit ] Cisa (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
18-483: A connection between Zisa and the "Isis" of the Suebi attested by Tacitus in his 1st century CE work Germania based on the similarity of their names. Grimm's connection of Zisa to Isis may have been influenced by similar considerations made by humanists such as Konrad Peutinger . The existence of a goddess Zisa was controversial through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1936, R. Kohl critically examined
27-568: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Zisa (goddess) The earliest record of a goddess named Zisa or Cisa is in an eleventh-century manuscript, now in Vienna, titled Excerptum ex Gallia Historia (Excerpt from the History of Gaul). According to the Excerptum , the city of Augsburg was once known as Cisaris after this goddess, who saved
36-452: The Excerptum from Cisae ara (altar of Cisa in Latin). Kohl argues that the name Cisenberg can be explained without the goddess; alternative explanations are that it means "mountain on which siskins [German Zeisige ] nest" or "mountain in the form of a breast" (German Zitze ). As all other information on Zisa appears to derive from the Excerptum in one way or another, Kohl concludes that
45-488: The Excerptum , sometimes mixed with information on Slavic deities derived from William of Malmesbury . In the late fifteenth and in the sixteenth century, German humanists associated the images of various women around Augsburg with the goddess, including some on churches and some dug up in the city. Jacob Grimm proposed that Zisa might be the consort of the god Tyr (in Old High German, Ziu ). Grimm also suggested
54-459: The city from a Roman invasion on 28 September. On this day her feast was celebrated, and her name is preserved as the name of a hill, Cisunberc . A placename Cisenberg is attested around Augsburg in a charter from around 1300. The historical event described (the Roman assault) is universally rejected as not having any historical value. Various later textual mentions of Zisa all seem to depend on
63-400: The evidence for the goddess's existence: he determined that none of the archaeological or pictorial depictions that were said to depict Zisa in fact depicted the goddess. Examining the Excerptum , Kohl argued that the name of the goddess seemed to have been derived as an explanation for the place name Cisenberg , after which the "old name" for Augsburg, Cisaris , was invented by the writer of
72-578: The goddess never existed. Following Kohl, Rudolf Simek writes: (Cisa, Zisa) is supposedly the name of a Germanic goddess who, according to a Latin historical text from the 11th century, was worshipped in Augsburg in heathen times. While Grimm made extensive speculations about the identity of this goddess, today the supposition of a goddess Cisa is rejected because the source text does not stand up to critical examination. Siskin The name siskin when referring to
81-458: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Zisa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zisa&oldid=948201158 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
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