Hercules Andossus
Inscription from Montauban : ILUNNI / DEO / - / V (otum) S (oluit) L (ibens) M (erito)
Hercules Andossus or Andosto (further spelling variants Andosius and Andossius ) was a Celtic god of the Gauls who was worshiped mainly in the Garonne Valley and the Pyrenees .
Nickname
The god Andossus has a number of nicknames in the traditional inscriptions. He appears as Toliandossus, Erge and Ilunnus (also Arsilunnus or Astoilunnus). The latter name is perhaps identical to the god Ialonus-Contrebis, who was also known in Great Britain. Erge is interpreted as "blessed one" or "heaven", Ilunnus as "the dark one" or "god of the clearing".
See also
literature
- Jacob Becker : Hercules Saxanus. In Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Volume 17, 1862, pp. 14 - 28. ( [1] )
- Jacob Becker: The inscribed remains of the Celtic language. In: Contributions to comparative linguistic research in the field of the Aryan, Celtic and Slavic languages , Volume 3, Issue 2 (1863), pp. 162-215 ( available online at JSTO.org. )
- Max Him : Andossus . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2130.
- Maria Jaczynowska: Le culte de l'Hercule romain au temps du Haut-Empire. In: Wolfgang Haase (Ed.): Rise and decline of the Roman world , II. Principat. Part 17, 2 religion (paganism: Roman gods, oriental cults in the Roman world). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1981, ISBN 978-3-11-085068-0 , pp. 631 - 661. ( yter chargeable from de Gruyter Online )
- Hedwig Kenner: The gods of the Austria Romana. In: Wolfgang Haase (Ed.): Rise and decline of the Roman world , II. Principat. Volume 18.2: Religion (Paganism: The Religious Conditions in the Provinces [cont.]). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 978-3-11-085570-8 , pp. 1652 - 1745. ( fee required from de Gruyter Online )