Mogon

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Mogon , also Mogons , is a Celtic god who, according to the Interpretatio Romana, is equated with Apollon . Mogon is interpreted as a healing or sun god .

Locations and etymology

The Roman fort Mogontiacum ( Mainz , Roman province Germania superior ) is said to have its name after Mogon . In an inscription from Metz ( Divodurum , Roman province Gallia Belgica ) a dea Mogontina is mentioned. Some sites are on Hadrian's Wall . One inscription was found on an altar in Risingham ( Habitancum , Northumberland , England ) and another in Chesterholm ( Vindolanda , ibid.). Two inscriptions, in Penrith ( Cumbria , England) and Rochester ( Bremenium , Northumberland, England), are unsafe to read.

Mogons , also Mogounos , Celtiberian Maganus , means "the mighty" or "the great".

A theory of the origin of the Mainz wheel also goes back to Mogon .

See also

literature

  • Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
  • Wolfgang Haase: Religion (Paganism: The religious conditions in the provinces). Walter de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-010050-1 , p. 52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 619.
  2. ↑ CFR Reuter: Mogon, a tribal god of the Vangions and Mogontiacum, a Vangionic city. In: Nassau Annals. Yearbook of the association for Nassau antiquity and historical research. Vol. 10, 1870, p. 365.
  3. ↑ CIL XIII, 4313 Deae / Mogon / tiae Iul (ius) / Paternus / tabular (ius) / ex voto
  4. ↑ CIL VII, 996 [D] eo / Mogonito (!) Cad () / et n (umini) d (omini) n (ostri) Aug (usti) / M (arcus) G (avius?) Secundinus / [b ( ene)] f (iciarius) co (n) s (ularis) habita / nci prima stat (ione) / pro se et suis posu [it]
  5. ↑ deo Mogont (i) et genio loci, Lupul (us) [v.] Sm
  6. ↑ deo Mounti, [p] ro salute [-] stius [l.] M.
  7. ↑ dis Mountibus Iul [ius) Firminus dec (urio) f (ecit)
  8. ↑ A. Holder: Old Celtic vocabulary. Leipzig 1896–1907, Sp. 611, 616.
  9. ^ Maria Lourdes Albertos: La onomástica de la Celtibera. In: Jordá / de Hoz / Michelena (eds.): Actas del I coloquio sobre lenguas y culturas perromanas de la peninsula ibérica. Salamanca 1976, p. 155.