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Artio is a playable character in the video game Smite. [6] She comes from the Celtic pantheon and is a melee, magical guardian. She can freely transform between her human representation (druid stance) and her bear form (bear stance), both of which come with their own sets of abilities.
Artaius is a Celtic epithet [1] applied to the Roman god Mercury during the Romano-Celtic period. It is known from a single inscription from Beaucroissant in the Isère: MERCVRIO AVG ARTAIO SACR SEX GEMINIVS CVPITVS EX VOTO [2] "To the august Mercury Artaius, Sextus Geminius Cupitus (has dedicated this) sacred (stone) in fulfillment of a vow."
A bear patella bearing butchery marks has been dated to 10860–10641 BC; it was found in the Alice and Gwendoline Cave, County Clare. DNA studies have shown that the Irish bear was intermediate between the modern brown bear and modern polar bear. [7] This suggests that the Irish bear interbred with archaic polar bears during the Pleistocene. [8]
The Ainu Iomante ceremony (bear sending). Japanese scroll painting, circa 1870. Bear worship is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as among the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu, [1] Basques, [2] Germanic peoples, Slavs and Finns. [3]
Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern, itself named for the bear. Her name is derived from the Celtic word for "bear", artos. [12] In ancient Greece, the archaic cult of Artemis in bear form survived into Classical times at Brauron, where young Athenian girls passed an initiation right as arktai "she bears". [13]
The Gaulish theonym Andarta is traditionally interpreted as meaning 'Great Bear', perhaps 'powerful bear' or Ursa Major, formed with an intensifying suffix and- attached to a feminine form of artos ('bear'). [1] [2] Andarta might thus have been a counterpart or an alternative name of the Celtic bear goddess, Artio. [2]
The names of Artio, the ursine goddess, and Epona, the equine goddess, are based on Celtic words for bear and horse, respectively. [3]: 24 In Ireland, the Morrígan is associated with crows, wolves, and horses, among other creatures, and in Scotland Brighid's animals include snakes and cattle.
The cù-sìth(e) (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʰuː ˈʃiː]), plural coin-shìth(e) (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʰɔɲ ˈhiː]) is a mythical hound found in Irish folklore and Scottish folklore.