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On the northern slopes of the mountains, however, there lived a well known and powerful people, called Suannies by the Greek and the Svani by the Colchidians. Their land, Svaneti, also bordered the land of the Amazons, in the north-east Caucasus, and that of the Aes people in the north.
The Svani had become rich and powerful partly because they were well protected from marauders by nature, living in a fertile land surrounded by immense forests, wide rivers and high mountains, easily defended against intruders. But also because they had discovered, in their mountains, easily mined deposit of the only known naturally alloyed copper. Alloyed with antimony and arsen, this copper was nearly as strong as bronze, and for more than a millennium, the Svani bronze was the dominating metal of the Caucasus region, used as weapons, tools and ornaments.
The Svani also had a culture of matrilineal inheritance and it was a religion in which the worship of a Mother Goddess, a water goddess and a love goddess was prominent. And in their culture, fertility symbols like the horns of oxen and bucks, strange-looking axes and certain figurines were also prominent. All of these cultural and religious clues could be matched to archaeological finds in Denmark and Sweden, dating back 2000 years, when a new culture became prominent in Scandinavia.
I found no other local people or culture more suitable than the Svani to fit the role of the Vanir, as much from their religious and cultural traits, as for their power to fight the Aes on equal terms. And it seems feasible that the word Svani could change into Vani in another dialect.
I suggest that the Caucasian Svani who came to Denmark over 2000 years ago were called 'Daner', as they worshipped the goddess Dana in particular, and that 'Freya' was their name.
http://idrisi.narod.ru/volvewitch.htm

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