Кто создал богиню Кардею?

Abstract

This paper argues that the appearance in the Tertullian’s texts of name Cardea, goddess, which, as W.F. Otto has proved, never existed at Romans, is caused not by a mistake of some copyists, but by mistake of apologist himself, which divided in his consciousness Carna, near whose temple, as he said, altars of the gods adventicii were, from Cardea, which belonged to gods publici, whose altars were on Palatin. Tertullian mentions Cardea in his earlier writings (Ad nat. II.15.5 and Idol. 15.5–6). In De cor. 13.9 he, as Ovid does (Ovid. Fast. VI.101– 128), names the goddess of door loops Carna. The universal character of phonetic changes d, l and n could cause appearance of two readings Carna and Card(e)a in the antiquity. However reading Cardea first has recorded by Tertullian.