This list contains purported Lusitanian deities, that is the
gods
A deity or god is a supernatural being who is considered divine or sacred. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' defines deity as a god or goddess, or anything revered as divine. C. Scott Littleton defines a deity as "a being with powers greater ...
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goddesses
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Lusitanian mythology
Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, an Indo-European speaking people of western Iberia, in what was then known as Lusitania and Gallaecia. In present times, the territory comprises most of Portugal, Galicia, Extremadura and ...
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Abna
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Aernus Aernus was a theonym used for a god in the Celtiberian pantheon. The use of this theonym was confined to worship in the vicinity of Bragança. Around this area, a number of inscriptions to a god hailed by this name have been recorded.Page 14 of J ...
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Aetio
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Albucelainco
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Ambieicris
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Arabo
Arabo ( hy, Արաբօ, 1863–1893), born Arakel Mkhitarian, was an Armenian fedayi of the late 19th century.
Arabo was born in the village of Kurter or Korter ( or ) in the region of Sasun in the Bitlis vilayet. Arabo studied at the Arakel ...
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Arentia
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Arentio
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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 lat ...
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Ataegina
Ataegina ( es, Ataecina; pt, Atégina) was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Iberians, Lusitanians, and Celtiberians of the Iberian Peninsula. She is believed to have ruled the underworld.
Names
The deity's name is variously attested as ''At ...
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Bandua Bandua was a theonym used to refer to a god or goddess worshipped in Iberia by Gallaeci and Lusitanians. Whether the name referred to a discrete deity or was an epithet applied to different deities is arguable.
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Bormanicus (Borvo)
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Cabuniaegenis
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Candeberonio
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Cariocecus
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Carneus
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Cauleces
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Collouesei
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Coronus
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Coruae
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Coso
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Debaroni Muceaigaego
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Dercetius
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Duberdicus Duberdicus or Duberdico, was a god of fountains, lakes, and oceans in Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Portugal).
See also
* List of Lusitanian deities
*Lusitanian mythology
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Durius Durius or Durio was a god worshiped by the ancient Lusitanians and Celtiberians of the Iberian peninsula. He was a personification of what is today known as the river Douro and is usually depicted holding a fishing net. A shrine dedicated to him wa ...
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Endovelicus
Endovelicus (Portuguese: ''Endouellicus'', ''Endovélico''; Spanish: ''Endovélico'', ''Enobólico'') is the best known 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 ...
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Edovio
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Eniragillo
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Epona
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Erbina
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Frovida
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Igaedo
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Laepo
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Laho
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Laneana
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Laraucus
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Lucubo
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Lurunis
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Miraro Samaco
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Moelio
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Moricilo
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Munidis
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Nabia
Nabia was the goddess of rivers and water in Gallaecian and Lusitanian mythology, in the territory of modern Galicia (Spain), Asturias (Spain) and Portugal.
The present-day Navia River and Avia (river) in Galicia and Asturias, the Neiva River, ...
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Netaci
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Neto
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Ocaere
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Quangeio
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Reo
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Reue Reo is a name appearing on Latin dedications to a Lusitanians, Lusitanian-Gallaecian deity, usually with an epithet relating to a place, such as Reo Paramaeco discovered in Lugo in Galicia (Spain), Galicia. The name ''Reo'' is in the Latin dative c ...
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Runesocesius
Runesocesius was a deity whose name appears on an inscription from the region of Évora, the Roman ''Ebora'' in modern Portugal in the area inhabited by the Celtici in Lusitania. He has generally been thought of as a Lusitanians, Lusitanian god.
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Sulae Nantugaicae
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Tameobrigus
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Toga
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Tongoe
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Tongoenabiagus
Tongoenabiagus was the Deity, god of the ''Idol's Fountain, Fonte do Ídolo'' (Portuguese language, Portuguese for ''Fountain of the Idol''), a 1st-century shrine in Braga (the Roman ''Bracara Augusta'') with an inscribed fountain dedicated both t ...
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Torolo Gombiciego
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Trebaruna
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Turiacus
Turiacus was a Celtic and Lusitanian god of power of the Grovii, in the cultural area of Gallaecia and Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galiza (Spain), Galicia (Spain) and Portugal). Turiacus seems to have been particularly worshiped by the G ...
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Trebopala
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Verore
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Vestio Alonieco
Name unknown
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sun goddess
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later assimilated by
Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
as Nossa Senhora d'Antime.
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References and bibliography
''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''. A Coruña. 1990.
* McKenna, Stephen.
Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom'.
* Martínez, Sonia María García.
La epigrafía romana del concelho de Guimarães. Un estado de la cuestión. In: ''Revista de Guimarães'', n.º 105, 1995, pp. 139-171.
* Pedreño, Juan Carlos Olivares.
Teonimos indigenas masculinos del ambito Lusitano-Galaico: un intento de síntesis. In: ''Revista de Guimarães'', Volume Especial, I, Guimarães, 1999, pp. 277-296.
* Pedreño, Juan Carlos Olivares - ''Los Dioses de la Hispania Céltica''. Madrid. 2002.
* Robalo, Mário.
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''References''
Further reading
* Prósper, Blanca. "The Lusitanian language in the name of the divinities Moelio Mordonieco and Torolo Combiciego, the Hispanic placename Mαιvάκη and related matters", Indogermanische Forschungen 103, 1998 (1998): 261-280, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110243444.261
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Prósper, Blanca Maria.
The Hispano-Celtic Divinity ILVRBEDA, Gold Mining in Western Hispania and the Syntactic Context of Celtiberian arkatobezom 'Silver Mine'. In: ''Die Sprache'' 49, 1 (2010-2011): 53–83.
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