sentences: G. de Bruyn, a scholar of Oldenzaal folklore, returned to splitting the name into "Tan" and "fana" on toponymic grounds and because of a stamp dated 1336 found near Ommen that shows a woman holding a fir tree flanked by a sun symbol and a catlike creature and a bird; he proposed that she was a moon or a mother goddess, perhaps related to the Carthaginian goddess Tanit.