Alisanus

Alisanus is the name of a Celtic god who was worshiped in Gaul in what is now Burgundy .

Etymology and localities

The name Alisanus is associated with the Celtic word for "rock". Another possibility would be a connection with the Irish word Luis , the name of the juniper , and there can also be a connection between the god and the name of a river Alisos and as the patron god of the Celtic city of Alesia (today Alise-Sainte-Reine ).

Three dedicatory inscriptions for Alisanus were found:

• in the hamlet of Viévy-Visignot (Roman province of Lugdunensis , today the Côte-d'Or department ) in the Haeduer area
• in Gevrey-Chambertin (Département Côte-d'Or) in the Lingonen region , near Diviodunum , today's Dijon
• in Arles ( Arelate , Roman province Gallia Narbonensis , today the Bouches-du-Rhône department) - here the name is only rudimentary and therefore uncertain

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Celtic religion
• Celtic mythology

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• James MacKillop: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 978-0-198-60967-4
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luis is translated as "flame", "plant" or "herb" in the Ogham alphabet, only in the monastic script Cló gaelach is luis called "juniper"; see Helmut Birkhan: Nachantike Keltenrezeption , ISBN 978-3-7069-0541-1 , p. 569.
2. ↑ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture , p. 15.
3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 683.
4. ↑ CIL XIII, 2843 Deo Alisano Paullinus / pro Contedio fil (io) suo / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
5. ↑ CIL XIII, 5468 Doiros Segomari / Ieuru Alisanu
6. ↑ CIL XII, 665 ] rumo / [3] uronis f (ilio) / [3] isano / [v (otum) s (olvit)] l (ibens) m (erito)