The moon goddess of the ancient Basques and other Iberians, daughter of Lurbira and sister of Ekhi. In the study of mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the Moon: see Moon (mythology). ... This article is about the Basque people. ... Iberia can mean: The Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe; That part of it inhabited by the Iberians, speaking the Iberian language. ...
She is also a goddess of light who shines in the dark for the souls of dead.
Other names used to refer to her include Iretargui and Illargui, meaning light of the dead.
Once made the exposition of the diverse theories and interpretations, we will give as summary that in Basque, in spite of the relative transparency of the compound names, the origin and primitive meaning of the names of the `sun' and the `moon' have not been able to be settled in a definite manner.
Lopez Mendizabal interprets ilazki `moon' (with palatalized l) as composed of ila-iz-ki, literally `light of the night', that is to say, `moon'.
In losing the p of *puzki, the homophone is produced and from there follows the collision with uzki `eye', a term that seems to have a very diverse origin, perhaps from *kuski, *kuzki, in whose case the nucleus or radical element of ikusi `to see' reappears, which is decomposed as i-kus-i.
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