>Geoffrey of Monmouth expands upon this story in his Historia Regum Britanniae, in which it forms the earliest foundation of Britain and the beginning of its recorded history. In Geoffrey’s meticulously constructed pseudo-history, Brutus wages war against the Greeks to free a group of enslaved Trojan descendants, survives an encounter with the Sirens, and is led to Britain by a vision he receives from the goddess Diana. In doing so, Brutus emulates—or even surpasses—the heroes of Classical mythology. Brutus was the legendary founder and first king of the Britons, reigning around the twelth century BCE, sometime after the Trojan War. He is considered to be an ancestor to Arthur and reigned alongside the first duke of Cornwall, Corineus

>The name "Artemis" (n., f.) is of unknown or uncertain etymology, although various sources have been proposed. R.S.P. Beekes suggested that the e/i interchange points to a Pre-Greek origin. Artemis was venerated in Lydia as Artimus. Georgios Babiniotis, while accepting that the etymology is unknown, also states that the name is already attested in Mycenean Greek and is possibly of pre-Greek origin

>The name may be related to Greek árktos "bear" (from PIE *h2ŕ̥tḱos), supported by the bear cult the goddess had in Attica (Brauronia) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkoudiotissa Cave, as well as the story of Callisto, which was originally about Artemis (Arcadian epithet kallisto); this cult was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic rituals and formed part of a larger bear cult found further afield in other Indo-European cultures (e.g., Gaulish Artio). It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshipped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis

>While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀳𐀖𐀵, a-te-mi-to /Artemitos/ (gen.) and 𐀀𐀴𐀖𐀳, a-ti-mi-te /Artimitei/ (dat.), written in Linear B at Pylos

>Artio (Dea Artio in the Gallo-Roman religion) is a Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern in Switzerland. Her name is derived from the Gaulish word for 'bear', artos

>The Gaulish theonym Artiō derives from the Celtic word for the 'bear', artos (cf. Old Irish art, Middle Welsh arth, Old Breton ard), itself from Proto-Indo-European *h2ŕ̥tḱos ('bear'). A Celtic form reconstructed as *Arto-rix ('Bear-King') could be the source for the name Arthur, via a Latinized form *Artori(u)s. The Basque hartz ('bear') is also presumed to be a Celtic loanword

>The origin of the Welsh name "Arthur" remains a matter of debate. The most widely accepted etymology derives it from the Roman nomen gentile (family name) Artorius. Artorius itself is of obscure and contested etymology. Linguist Stephan Zimmer suggests Artorius possibly had a Celtic origin, being a Latinization of a hypothetical name *Artorījos, in turn derived from an older patronym *Arto-rīg-ios, meaning "son of the bear/warrior-king". This patronym is unattested, but the root, *arto-rīg, "bear/warrior-king", is the source of the Old Irish personal name Artrí. Some scholars have suggested it is relevant to this debate that the legendary King Arthur's name only appears as Arthur or Arturus in early Latin Arthurian texts, never as Artōrius (though Classical Latin Artōrius became Arturius in some Vulgar Latin dialects). Others believe the origin of the name Arthur, as Artōrius would regularly become Art(h)ur when borrowed into Welsh

Is that the ass a Roman-Breton king should have?

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>Another commonly proposed derivation of Arthur from Welsh arth "bear" + (g)wr "man" (earlier *Arto-uiros in Brittonic) is not accepted by modern scholars for phonological and orthographic reasons. Notably, a Brittonic compound name *Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh *Artgur (where u represents the short vowel /u/) and Middle/Modern Welsh *Arthwr, rather than Arthur (where u is a long vowel /ʉː/). In Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in -ur—never words ending in -wr—which confirms that the second element cannot be [g]wr "man"

>An alternative theory, which has gained only limited acceptance among professional scholars, derives the name Arthur from Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, near Ursa Major or the Great Bear. Classical Latin Arcturus would also have become Art(h)ur when borrowed into Welsh, and its brightness and position in the sky led people to regard it as the "guardian of the bear" (which is the meaning of the name in Ancient Greek) and the "leader" of the other stars in Boötes

Arthur = "Bear" | Pendragon = "Chief Dragon".

Arthur derives from artos = bear.

Pendragon literally means “Chief Dragon” (from the Welsh Pen = head/leader + Draig = dragon).

Sometimes interpreted as “dragon of leadership” or “dragon prince”.

So the full name Arthur Pendragon can be read as: “The Bear, Chief of Dragons” — or even “The Celestial Bear”.

Ursa Major / Ursa Minor and Draco are polar/northern constellations.

Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (Big and Little Dipper) circle the North Celestial Pole.

The pole star (Polaris) is in the tail of Ursa Minor.

Draco, the dragon constellation, coils between them like a serpent or guardian dragon.

In many ancient traditions, these constellations were associated with celestial kingship, immortality and eternal thrones.

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The north (represented by these circumpolar constellations) is the center of eternal power, immobile in the sky.

Draco is the guardian of the axis of the world (axis mundi).

Ursa Major is sometimes called the king's chariot or celestial throne.

In cultures such as the Indo-Iranian, Greek and even Chinese, the bear was associated with the immortal emperor or spirit of the ancestral king.

This fits perfectly with the myth of Arthur sleeping in Avalon, waiting to return, as an ever-present constellation, eternally rotating in the night sky of the northern hemisphere.

In Celtic mythology, the dragon was a symbol of earthly strength and war.

The banner of the Red Dragon of Wales (Y Ddraig Goch) is directly linked to Arthur's lineage.

The bear (Artio) represented tribal power and ancestry.

These two cosmic figures, bear and dragon, appear in opposition and balance, as guardian and warrior, or king and destroyer.

Based on all this, some scholars suggest that Arthur is a mythologized version of a celestial or shamanic "Polar King" archetype:

He who rules the immobile center of the world (the Celestial North Pole/Polaris, not the earthly/physical one).

He sleeps and wakes in cycles, like the polar constellations that never set, and is guarded by the bear (the tribe/earth) and has dominion over the dragon (the celestial/chthonic force).

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