Talk:Februus

Februus is not Etruscan, it's Roman

I don't know why people keep confusing Etruscans and Romans together as if they were the same people. They spoke two different languages, had two different religions and two different cultures. Even two different origins. If they should share commonalities, it's only because they lived side by side in Western Italy. Now clearly Februus is not an Etruscan word unless we make up some imaginary word with Etruscan-plausible sounds to account for it like, say, **fepru (since "b" does not exist in Etruscan). But why bother trying to account for hearsay? The popularity of paganism online is touching, it really is, but when religious nutcases start screwing around with known facts and history, somebody has to pipe up. If Februus is Etruscan, please cite references to the classical author(s) that presumably claims this. Yet with all classical authors we still have to take them with a grain of salt and consider their motives. Authors aren't infallible truth-telling machines, y'know. --Glengordon01 10:39, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

A pagan god

"He was also considered a pagan god, especially during the time-period when the Romans worshiped the Egyptian goddess, Isis.". This sentence makes no sense. All Roman gods were "pagan gods". How could Februus become more of "a pagan god" during the late Roman period? And how is he associated with Isis??Lily20 (talk) 17:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I believe it's meant that Februus was "pagan" from a Roman point of view, as in, foreign to the Roman religion. The Roman religion was pagan from the early Christian point of view. Boneyard90 (talk) 19:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, I admire your reasoning, but I think the sentence is just confused and needs to go. Cynwolfe (talk) 21:15, 11 April 2011 (UTC)