Bandua

Bandua is the name of a Celtic goddess . It was found on inscriptions from Aquae Flaviae , today Bragança in the Roman province of Lusitania ( Portugal ) and also from Galicia . The inscription from Bragança reads:

Bandu (a) e / Cal [ai] co Er [at] a Ru [f] i [na] / Mont (ano?) Mon / tanus co / nsacra [vit] / ex voto

In Rairiz de Veiga (Province of Ourense , Galicia), Bandua is mentioned as a partner of Mars on a vexillum (Roman standard):

Deo Vexilor [um] martis socio Banduae.

The place name Bande in Ourense apparently also refers to Bandua.

According to Steuding, the syllable ban denotes the following word as feminine, so that with bandua or bandea a female deity can be understood in general. So whether this is a single goddess or a collective term cannot be clearly determined.

literature

• Hermann Steuding : Bandua . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 749 ( digitized version ).

See also

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIL 2, 2498
2. ^ Eduardo Peralta Labrador: Los cántabros antes de Roma. Real Academia de la Historia, 2003, ISBN 84-89512-59-0 , p. 199. (books.google.com) (Spanish)