The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

[61] The epithets and names are Anextiomarus, Belenos, Bormo, Borvo, or Bormanus, Cobledulitavus, Cosmis (?), Grannos, Livicus, Maponos, Mogo or Mogounos, Sianus, Toutiorix, Viudonnus, Virotutis.  See Holder, s.v.

[62] Pommerol, Ball. de Soc. d’ant. de Paris, ii. fasc. 4.

[63] See Holder, s.v. Many place-names are derived from Borvo, e.g. Bourbon l’Archambaut, which gave its name to the Bourbon dynasty, thus connected with an old Celtic god.

[64] See p. 102, infra.

[65] Jul.  Cap. Maxim. 22; Herodian, viii. 3; Tert. Apol. xxiv. 70; Auson. Prof. xi. 24.

[66] Stokes derives belinuntia from beljo-, a tree or leaf, Irish bile, US 174.

[67] Holder, s.v.; Stokes, US 197; Rh[^y]s, HL 23; see p. 180, infra.

[68] Diod.  Sic. ii. 47.

[69] Apoll.  Rhod. iv. 609.

[70] Albiorix, Alator, Arixo, Beladonnis, Barrex, Belatucadros, Bolvinnus, Braciaca, Britovis, Buxenus, Cabetius, Camulus, Cariocecius, Caturix, Cemenelus, Cicollius, Carrus, Cocosus, Cociduis, Condatis, Cnabetius, Corotiacus, Dinomogetimarus, Divanno, Dunatis, Glarinus, Halamardus, Harmogius, Ieusdriuus, Lacavus, Latabius, Leucetius, Leucimalacus, Lenus, Mullo, Medocius, Mogetius, Nabelcus, Neton, Ocelos, Ollondios, Rudianus, Rigisamus, Randosatis, Riga, Segomo, Sinatis, Smertatius, Toutates, Tritullus, Vesucius, Vincius, Vitucadros, Vorocius.  See Holder, s.v.

[71] D’Arbois, ii. 215; Rh[^y]s, HL 37.

[72] So Rh[^y]s, HL 42.

[73] Huebner, 61.

[74] Holder, s.v.; Lucan, i. 444 f.  The opinions of writers who take this view are collected by Reinach, RC xviii. 137.

[75] Holder, s.v. The Gaulish name Camulogenus, “born of Cumel,” represents the same idea as in Fionn’s surname, MacCumall.

[76] Athen. iv. 36; Dioscorides, ii. 110; Joyce, SH ii. 116, 120; IT i. 437, 697.

[77] Pliny, HN xviii. 7.

[78] Gaidoz, Le Dieu Gaulois de Soleil; Reinach, CS 98, BF 35; Blanchet, i. 27.

[79] Lucan, Phar. i. 444.  Another form, Tanaros, may be simply the German Donar.

[80] Loth, i. 270.

[81] Gaidoz, RC vi. 457; Reinach, OS 65, 138; Blanchet, i. 160.  The hammer is also associated with another Celtic Dispater, equated with Sylvanus, who was certainly not a thunder-god.

[82] Reinach, BF 137 f.; Courcelle-Seneuil, 115 f.

[83] Barthelemy, RC i. l f.

[84] See Flouest, Rev. Arch. v. 17.

[85] Reinach, RC xvii. 45.

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