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Thoughts on the Latin name, Levania?

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Whatusernametochoosenoidea · 19/02/2021 18:16

Just that really!

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florascotia2 · 20/02/2021 17:10

OP As Wikipedia says, dea Levana is mentioned by St Augustine, who lived at the very end of the Roman era (he died c AD 430).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levana

Augustine mentions 'a goddess who lifts babies up from the earth' and that is literally what the name means dea= goddess; levana = lifting. The Latin verb 'levo' means 'I lift'; 'levare' means 'to lift'. So it's a description by Augustine, rather than a proper name: 'the lifting goddess'.

If you want to go further, this article describes how "Levana" was "rediscovered" by early 19th cent 'gothick' and 'spiritual education' writers in Europe and the UK, and transformed into a sort of goddess of transformative education, 'lifting people up' towards higher/spiritual/devine knowledge.
www.jstor.org/stable/1770741?seq=1

If you do use it, the original Latin is Levana, not Levania.

Today, Levena is a bio-tech pharmacutical company making advanced anti-cancer etc medicines. www.adcreview.com/tag/levena/

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