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Brasennus - a god known from a lone inscription in Cisalpine Gaul [3] Caletos [17] Camulus - Brittonic deity identified with Mars; Caturix - war god of the Helvetii; Cernunnos (Carnonos) - an antlered god; Cissonius - a Gallic god of trade [4] Mars Cnabetius - a Gallic god of war [18] Condatis - a Gallic and Brittonic god of the confluences of ...
Epona, the Celtic goddess of horses and riding, lacked a direct Roman equivalent, and is therefore one of the most persistent distinctly Celtic deities.This image comes from Germany, about 200 AD Replica of the incomplete Pillar of the Boatmen, from Paris, with four deities, including the only depiction of Cernunnos to name him (left, 2nd from top)
Nuada, god of the sky, wind, and war; Sulis, goddess of the hot springs at Bath; probably originally the pan-Celtic sun goddess; Ambisagrus, Cisalpine god of rain, sky and hail equated to the Roman god Jupiter; Tuireann, Irish god of thunder and the sky, Gaulic name Taranis.
Apedemak, the lion god of war: he is sometimes depicted with three heads; Bast, cat-headed goddess associated with war, protection of Lower Egypt and the pharaoh, the sun, perfumes, ointments, and embalming; Horus, god of the king, the sky, war, and protection; Maahes, lion-headed god of war; Menhit, goddess of war, "she who massacres"
The meaning of Lugh's name is still a matter of debate. Some scholars propose that it derives from a suggested Proto-Indo-European root *(h2)lewgh-meaning "to bind by oath" (compare Old Irish luige and Welsh llw, both meaning "oath, vow, act of swearing" and derived from a suffixed Proto-Celtic form, *lugiyo-, "oath"), [7] suggesting that he was originally a god of oaths and sworn contracts. [4]
Some scholars have proposed a war god named *Māwort-based on the Roman god Mars and the Vedic Marutás, the companions of the war-god Indra. Mallory and Adams reject this reconstruction on linguistic grounds. [255] Likewise, some researchers have found it more plausible that Mars was originally a storm deity, while the same cannot be said of Ares.
Macrobius in his Saturnalia, calls Neto both a sun god and equivalent in Hispania to the Roman Mars and Apollo. [1] A name Neito appears on the Celtiberian Botorrita bronze plaque. [2] The name also recalls an Irish war god Neit whose name might be derived from the same Celtic root meaning passion or conflict.
Corded Ware culture boat-shaped battle axe from Närke, Sweden.. It is likely that the figure of Ukko is mostly Indo-European, possibly Baltic, in origin. Ukko is held by researchers of religion to be parallel to Indo-European patriarchal sky deities, for example to Zeus and Jupiter of the Classical Greco-Roman pantheon, the Indian Hindu god Indra, the Balto-Slavic god Perun-Perkūnas and the ...