Zisa (goddess)
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Zisa or Cisa is a goddess in Germanic paganism associated with the Suevi in the area of Augsburg, Germany. Zisa is mentioned in manuscripts from the 12th to 14th centuries which reference a victory against the Roman Empire attributed to the goddess. The anniversary of this victory was celebrated on the festival day of September 28 and involved games and merrymaking.[1]
Jacob Grimm proposes a connection between Cisa and to the "Isis" attested by Tacitus in his first century CE work Germania based on the similarity of their names, if not their functions. Zisa is as an etymological double of Tyr or Ziu and Grimm suggests that Zisa may be the same figure as Tyr's unnamed wife attested in stanza 40 of the 13th century Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna.[1]
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- Stallybrass, James Steven. (1882) (Trans.) J. Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie, volume I.
