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Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, an Indo-European speaking people of western Iberia, in what was then known as Lusitania. In present times, the territory comprises the central part of Portugal and small parts of Extremadura and Salamanca. Lusitanian deities heavily influenced all of the religious practices in western ...
Lusitanian mythology was heavily influenced by or related to Celtic mythology. [15] [16] Also well attested in inscriptions are the names Bandua [17] [18] [19] (one of the variants of Borvo) [20] often with a second name linked to a locality such as Bandua Aetobrico, and Nabia, [21] a goddess of rivers and streams. [15] [22]
Endovelicus. Endovelicus (Portuguese: Endouellicus, Endovélico; Spanish: Endovélico, Enobólico) is one of the pre-Roman Lusitanian and Celtiberian gods of the Iron Age. He was originally a chthonic god. He was the God/Lord of the Underworld and of health, prophecy and the earth, associated with vegetation and the afterlife.
Bibliography. Coutinhas, José Manuel - Aproximação à identidade etno-cultural dos Callaici Bracari.Porto. 2006. García Fernández-Albalat, Blanca - Guerra y Religión en la Gallaecia y la Lusitania Antiguas.
Viriathus (also spelled Viriatus; known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish; died 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania (as the Romans called it) or western Iberia (as the Greeks called it), where the Roman province of Lusitania would be finally established after the conquest.
Jana is the Goddess of the Moon, said to have 2 faces. One faces the past, and the other faces the future. Jove is the Sky God. He is the equivalent of Jupiter of Roman mythology who is the King of all other Gods. Nox is the Goddess of the night, the beginning of all things, and one of the oldest of the Gods.
Hindu Mythology. A Saraswati statue in a park. Saraswati, goddess of knowledge, creativity, and speech. Ganesha, god of wisdom, luck, and new beginnings. Kartikeya, god of war, victory, and knowledge. Brihaspati, guru of the devas. Shukra, guru of the asuras. Dakshinamurti, an aspect of Shiva as the guru of sages.
Ares Lusitani ( Latin for the Lusitanian Ares) was the God of horses and knights in Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Gallaecia and Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia ( Spain) and Portugal ). This deity was probably a late Greek - Roman addition to the native pantheon.