Arnemetia
Arnemetia , also Arnomecta , is called a Celtic (healing) goddess who was worshiped in Britain .
The name appears in the Latin name Aquae Arnemetiae for the place Buxton (Derbyshire) with a Roman thermal bath and in a dedicatory inscription from Brough-on-Noe , also in Derbyshire. Read here: DEAE ARNOMECTE (RIB 281). The archaeological search in Buxton uncovered 232 coins and two bronze rings ( torques ?).
Arnemetia is said to be composed of Celtic are ("next to", "near") and nemeton ("holy place"), which could indicate a byname of a goddess ("who lives in a holy place").
After the Christianization of Britain, Arnemetia was equated with St. Anna and the healing spring was renamed St. Anne's Well .
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 24.
- Birley, Eric : The deities of Roman Britain, in: Religion (Heidentum: The religious relationships in the provinces), ed. v. Wolfgang Haase, (= ANRW, 18.1), Berlin 1986, pp. 3–112, here p. 65f.
Web links
- Wolfgang Haase: Religion (Paganism: the religious conditions in the provinces), Volume 18, Walter de Gruyter, 1986, p. 65 f.
- Patricia Monaghan: Encyclopedia of goddesses and heroines, ABC-CLIO, 2010, p. 334.