Bormo

Bormo , also Borvo , Bormanus or deus Bormanicus (in today's Portugal ), is the name of a Celtic god of salvation .

Etymology and Mythology

The name Borvo is derived from the Celtic word for “cook”, it is related to his function as a local deity at hot springs (“the boiling / bubbling”). His worship was particularly widespread in Gaul , where he was considered the god of medicinal and thermal springs . Usually he is accompanied by a female deity who is called Damona (also Bormona, Bormana) ( CIL 13, 2805 C (aius) Iulius Eporedirigis f (ilius) Magnus / pro L (ucio) Iulio Caleno filio / Bormoni et Damonae / vot (um) sol (vit) ). The equations Bormo-Damona / Bormona, Bormanus-Bormana and Borvo are not entirely undisputed, but are rather accepted by most etymologists.

Borvo / Bormo can still be found today in the French place names Bourbonne-les-Bains ( Haute-Marne department ) and Bourbon-Lancy ( Saône-et-Loire department ). In an inscription in Bourbonne-les-Bains, Bormo is identified with the Roman Apollo according to the Interpretatio Romana ( CIL 13, 5911 Deo Apol / lini Borvoni / et Damonae / C (aius) Daminius / Ferox civis / Lingonus ex / voto ).

Dedicatory inscriptions

• Portugal, Caldas de Vizela, Roman province of Hispania citerior
  • CIL II, 2402 Medam / us Camal (i) / Bormani / co v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  • CIL II, 2403 C (aius) Pompeius / Gal (eria) Caturo / nis f (ilius) Mot / ugenus Ux / {s} amensis / deo Borma / nico v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens?) / Quisquis ho / norem agi / tas ita te tua / gloria servet / praecipias / puero ne / linat hunc / lapidem
• Aix-en-Provence ( Aquae Sextiae ), Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis
  • CIL XII, 494 Dexter Borman (o) / iter (um) l (ibens) m (erito)
• Aix-les-Bains ( Aquae ), Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis
  • CIL XII, 2443 M (arcus) Licin (ius) Ruso // Borm (oni) u (t) v (overat) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  • CIL XII, 2444 Q (uintus) Vettius / Guticus / Borv (oni) v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
• Bourbon-Lancy, ( Aquae Bormonis ), Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis
  • CIL XIII, 2805 C (aius) Iulius Eporedirigis f (ilius) Magnus / pro L (ucio) Iulio Caleno filio / Bormoni et Damonae / vot (um) sol (vit)
• Bourbonne-les-Bains, Roman provinces Gallia Belgica and Germania superior
  • CIL XIII, 5911 eo Apol / lini Borvoni / et Damonae / C (aius) Daminius / Ferox civis / Lingonus ex / voto
  • CIL XIII, 5912 Aug (usto) / Borvoni / C (aius) Valent (inius) / Censori / nus / Mulli f (ilius) / ex voto
  • CIL XIII, 5913 Deo Bor / voni / Vita / lia / Sas / sula / ex vo / to
  • CIL XIII, 5914 Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Aemilia / Sex (ti) fil (ia) / M [3] S
  • CIL XIII, 5915 Borvoni / et Damo (nae) / Fro (n) t (o) Luc (i) f (ilius)
  • CIL XIII, 5916 Borvoni et [Da] / monae C (aius) Ia / tinius Ro / manus (L) in / g (onus) pro salu / te Cocillae / fil (iae) ex voto
  • CIL XIII, 5917 Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Iul (ia) Tiberia / Corisilla / Claud (i) Catonis Ling (onis) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  • CIL XIII, 5918 Deo Borvoni / et Damon (ae) / Maturia Rus / tica / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
  • CIL XIII, 5919 Borvoni / et Damo / nae / [Se] xtilia / Sexti fil (ia) / Med (iomatrica?)
  • CIL XIII, 5920 Deo Borvo (ni) / et Damon (a) e / Verrea / Veri / lla Lingo /
• Entrains-sur-Nohain, ( Intaranum ) Département Nièvre , Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis
  • CIL XIII, 2901 Aug (usto) sacr (um) deo / Borvoni et Candi / do aerari (i) sub cu / ra Leonis et Mar / ciani ex voto r (eddito?) / Aerari (i) dona (verunt)
• Aix-en-Diois ( Lucus Augusti ), Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis
  • CIL XII, 1561 Bormano / et Borman [ae] / P (ublius) Sappinius / Eusebes v (otum) s (olvit) / l (ibens) m (erito)
• Rhine , Roman province Germania superior
  • AE 2003, 1279 Ian (uarius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Feb (ruarius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Ma (rtius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id ( us) aeq (uinoctium) Apr (ilis) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Mai (us) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Iun (ius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) sol (stitium) VIII K (alendas) Iul (ius) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Aug (ustus) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Sep (tember) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) aeq (uinoctium) Oct (ober) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Nov (ember) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) Dec (ember ) K (alendae) N (onae) Id (us) br (uma) // Mapil (ius) Mapilianus su (b) pr (a) efect (u) s aquarum dei Borvonis ex aere fracto {et} excitatoriam f (ecit ) ex voto s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito)
• Saint-Vulbas, ( Ambarri ), Ain department , Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis
  • CIL XIII, 2452 Bormanae / Aug (ustae) sacr (um) / Capri / Atratinus / Sabinian [us] / d (e) s (uo) d (ederunt)

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Celtic religion
• Celtic mythology
• List of deities in the Asterix comics

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• Maximilian Ihm : Bormo . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 733.
• Maximilian Ihm : Borvo . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 735 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 619, notes 5-7.
2. ^ Bernhard Maier: Lexicon of the Celtic religion and culture . P. 47 f.