Abellio (deity)
Abellio (also Abelio) is the name of a late antique Gallo-Roman deity in Celtic mythology .
etymology
Abellio was a local god in the Garonne Valley in the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania (today's Aquitaine region ), where 14 dedicatory inscriptions were found in Comminges and in the area of today's Haute-Garonne department .
The name Abellio is derived from the Celtic aball or aval ("apple" or "apple tree"). Mostly he is seen as a god of fertility or life. There is only one identifiable representation of the god Abellio on an altar, which was found at the Romanesque Chapelle de Saint-Pé de la Moraine . It represents a man with a pleated skirt.
Etymologically depends Abellio probably closely with insular Celtic legendary figures as Afallach and by the name of the otherworld Avalon together, which is why a death deity was suspected already in it. Also linked with the name of the god Apollo , who in Crete Abelios (Αβέλιος) and in Italiern and Dorians Apello was called, was once suspected of researchers ( "Pyrenean Apollo"). This explanation can also be found in the encyclopedia by Diderot and d'Alembert .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL XIII, 39 Abellioni / Deo / Sabinus / Barhosis / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
- ↑ CIL XIII, 77 Abellionni / deo / Quintus D [-]
- ↑ CIL XIII, 166 Sembus / Uriassi f (ilius) / Abellion / ni deo / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
- ^ William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Volume 1, 1867, p. 2 ff.
- ↑ Feast. sv Apellinem; Eustath. ad II. ii. 99
literature
- Peter Berresford Ellis : Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. (Oxford Paperback Reference), Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-19-508961-8 .
- Juliette Wood: The Celts: Life, Myth, and Art. Thorsons Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0-00-764059-5 .
