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Pages in category "Gaulish gods" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abellio; Abgatiacus;
Nodens (Nodons) - a Brittonic god of healing, dogs and hunting; Ogmios - a Gallic god of eloquence; Paronnus - a god known from a lone inscription at Brixia [16] Rudiobus - a Gallic god in Loiret; Smertrios - a Gallic god; Souolibrogenos - a Galatian god [22] Sucellus (Sucellos) - a Gallic and Brittonic god of agriculture and wine; Tavianos - a ...
This table shows some of the Celtic and Romano-Celtic gods and goddesses mentioned above, in Romanized form as well as ancient Gaulish, British, or Iberian names as well as those of the Tuatha Dé Danann and characters from the Mabinogion. They are arranged so as to suggest some linguistic or functional associations among the ancient deities ...
Gaulish gods (1 C, 64 P) Pages in category "Gaulish deities" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The god Lugus has also been cited in the etymologies of several Celtic personal and place-names incorporating the element "Lug(u)-" (for example, the Roman settlement Lugdunum). Julius Caesar 's description in his Commentaries on the Gallic War of an important pre-Roman Gaulish god (whom Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury ) has been ...
Esus [a] is a Celtic god known from iconographic, epigraphic, and literary sources. The Roman poet Lucan's epic Pharsalia mentions Esus, Taranis, and Teutates as gods to whom the Gauls sacrificed humans. This rare mention of Celtic gods under their native names in a Latin text has been the subject of much comment.
In some cases, Gaulish deity names were used as epithets for Roman deities, and vice versa, as with Lenus Mars or Jupiter Poeninus.In other cases, Roman gods were given Gaulish female partners – for example, Mercury was paired with Rosmerta and Sirona was partnered with Apollo.
This category includes the most important and best-known gods of the Celtic world. For more, see the categories Gods of the ancient Britons , Gaulish gods , Irish gods and Welsh gods . See also Category:Celtic goddesses .