Belatucadros

Altar of Belatocairus from Kirkbride

Belatucadros , also Belatucadrus , Belatucairos and Balatocarus ("the beautiful and radiant"), is a Celtic deity who was worshiped as a god of war in Cumbria in the north-west of England , perhaps by the Celtic tribe of the Votadines and also by the Picts .

mythology

In the Interpretatio Romana he is equated with the god of war Mars , as evidenced by around 25 inscriptions with different spellings of the name. The majority of these inscriptions were found near Hadrian's Wall , near the Scottish border, e.g. B. at Penrith in Cumbria ( Voreda , Province of Britannia ) In some inscriptions Belatucadros is mentioned as Mars Belatucadros .

It is unclear whether the depictions of a horned god of war armed with a spear and shield in Northern Great Britain are depictions of Belatucadros or Cocidius .

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 40.
• Max Him : Belatucadros . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 197 f.
• Hermann Steuding : Belatucadrus . 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. ↑ AE 1977, 516 Deodorant / Bala / toca / uro
2. Jump up ↑ The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [1] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [2] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [3] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [4] , The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB) [5]