Talk:Pales

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The problem seems to be finding references, online or otherwise. One site does suggest, however, that the Romans would never have considered Pales to be a "bisexual" god, finding such a concept to be an abomination. It would be interesting to see if the Roman god did indeed derive from the Middle Eastern god, or if the confusion between male and female versions has something to do with the Greek Pallas. Elbo821 (talk) 21:50, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong, I love Tom Robbins' Books, including "Skinny Legs and All", but if this is the only source for the entire article then maybe we should consider that it is not necessarily true? I mean, the man takes a TON of literary license with Asarte and Jezebel in the same book, but they don't have crazy wiki pages to go with them. I'm just saying, maybe a little more references would be helpful.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.171.22.64 (talk) 16:19, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

The name may be related to phallus meaning "penis" .

I have moved this uncited (and rather dubious) claim to the Talk page until a citation can be found for it. No point just assuming it's correct and leaving it on the page when it could be original research or even vandalism; a citation shouldn't be hard to find, if one exists. -Silence 22:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

It's probably not vandalism, because it dates back to User:Tucci528 (now User:TUF-KAT). However, it appears to be a dubious etymology in any case. The ancient Greek word phallos is considered to derive from PIE *bhel-, "to swell". In Latin, PIE *bh generally became f, sometimes b; p would be an oddity, perhaps a loan. Alexander 007 16:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Describing gods as Sabine

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome#Describing gods as Sabine which relates to recent edits here and in other articles. NebY (talk) 18:28, 29 June 2023 (UTC)