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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.
A Voz dos Deuses (The Voice of the Gods) (ISBN 843-50-0587-9) is a historic novel by João Aguiar about the Lusitanian War.It takes the form of the written memories of Tongius, a Roman-Hispanic citizen and the high priest of the temple of Endovelicus in Lusitania, who relates his life, including his birth in the tribe of the Cynetes, his encounter with Lusitanian chieftain Viriathus, and his ...
He co-authored with Ruck The World of Classical Mythology: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes, which has become a standard textbook. The book The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries claims that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing ...
Ares Lusitani. 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.