Arubianus or Arubinus was a
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
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**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
god of the inscriptions in
Southern Germany, and in
Austria
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and
Slovenia
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.
Mythology and Etymology
The name is Celtic for "tiller" or "God of the plowed field". Sometimes it is also used for the local god of the Roman-Celtic settlement Arrubium (Măcin, Romania held), his followers would have spread his religious practices in other areas. The name may be analogous with
Arawn.
In the
Gallo-Roman period Arubianus was identified with the god
Jupiter
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, so it is perhaps a sky god or father of the gods. On the other hand, Jupiter was regarded as a protective god of the Roman settlements, so that can also apply to a local deity.
[August Friedrich von Pauly / Wissowa Georg. Pauly's Real-encyclopedia of classical archeology Volume 10 P 37
]
See also
*
Celtic polytheism
Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because the ancient Celts did not have writing, evidence about their religion is gleaned from archaeology, Greco-Roman accounts ...
*
Celtic Mythology
Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples.Cunliffe, Barry, (1997) ''The Ancient Celts''. Oxford, Oxford University Press , pp. 183 (religion), 202, 204–8. Like other Iron Age Europeans, Celtic peoples followed a ...
Literature
*
August Friedrich von Pauly / Wissowa Georg : Pauly's Real-encyclopedia of classical archeology.
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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In 2015, it merg ...
, 1919.
* Franz Franziss: Bavaria time of the Romans: A historical-archaeological research.
Friedrich Pustet
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The original home of the Pustets was the Republic of Venice, where the name Bustetto is common. Probably in the seventeenth century, the founder of the Ratisbon ...
, in 1905.
* Ekkehard Weber: The Roman period inscriptions Styria published by the State Historical Commission, 1969.
* Johann Wilhelm C. Steiner
''Codex inscriptionum romanarum Danubii et Rheni.'' No. 2754
References
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